Issues excluded from being the subject of referendums at the national level

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Answer
  • Civil service
  • Taxes and public expenditure commitments
  • Issues related to territorial integrity
  • Amnesty and pardon
  • See more in the quote
Source

Law on Referendum (1995, last amended in 2008)

http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/asia/KZ/kazakhstan-constitutional-law-on-referenum-1995/view

Article 3. Questions that cannot be the subject of therepublican

referendum

The following questions shall not be the subject ofreferendum:

1) which may entail violation of constitutional rightsand freedoms of individuals and citizens;

2) change of unitary and territorial integrity of thestate, the form of government of the Republic;

3) administrative-territorial structure and borders ofthe Republic;

4) justice, defense, national security and protectionof public order;

5) budget and tax policy;

6) amnesty and clemency;

7) appointment and election to the office, dismissalof officials under authority of the President, Houses of the Parliament and theGovernment of the Republic;

8) implementation of obligations arising frominternational treaties of the Republic.

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