Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan

Chairman of the Kazakh Senate
since 4 May 2020
AppointerSenate of Kazakhstan
Term lengthNone
Inaugural holderOmirbek Baigeldi
Formation30 January 1996
Websitesenate.parlam.kz
Politics of Kazakhstan

Commonwealth of Independent States CIS member state

The Chair of the Senate of Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Сенатының Төрағасы) is the head of the upper house of the Parliament of Kazakhstan who is responsible for opening sessions, preside over regular and extraordinary joint meetings.[1] The post was created on 30 January 1996 at the first newly Senate session opening after the 1995 Kazakh constitutional referendum which was held in 30 August 1995 that formed the Senate of Kazakhstan.[2]

  1. ^ "The Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan". akorda.kz. Archived from the original on 2015-07-06. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  2. ^ "History – Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan". senate.parlam.kz. Retrieved 2020-10-22.