Former President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan NazarbayevNUR-SULTAN, Jan 19 demand to deprive ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev of immunity. On Tuesday, Nazarbayev made his first public appearance since the beginning of the year, when mass riots took place in the country. Nazarbayev's video message was published on the YouTube channel of his press service. The long absence of the ex-president gave rise to a lot of rumors, including about the illness of the 81-year-old leader of the nation, about his possible departure and conflict with the current president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Nazarbayev addressed the people of Kazakhstan «According to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan «On the First President», which was adopted back in 2000, the first president and his family are guaranteed complete immunity … The first president cannot be detained, arrested, searched, summoned for interrogation and take into custody… All property belonging to Nazarbayev and his family members living with him is inviolable. pension (80% of the president's monthly salary). Each member of the Nazarbayev family who lived with him is assigned a monthly allowance,» the petition on egov.press says. The creators of the petition demand to repeal this law. «We believe that these privileges are unacceptable in a free democratic society, to which the new Kazakhstan aspires, in addition, the sources of income of the family and other relatives of the first president are highly questionable. All this is subject to a legal and objective investigation, but this is contrary to this law. We demand to cancel this law!» — noted in the petition. At the moment, the petition has been signed by more than 700 people. Meanwhile, the signatures collected on this site are not legally valid as the site is unofficial.Nazarbayev's son-in-law resigned as head of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs Later, the protests spread to other cities, including Alma-Ata, the old capital and the largest city of the republic: looting began there, militants attacked state institutions, took away weapons. In response, the authorities declared a state of emergency throughout the country until January 19 and launched a counter-terrorism operation. According to the country's Prosecutor General's Office, 4,578 people were injured as a result of the riots, 225 were killed, including 19 security officials. On the morning of January 5, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismissed the government and headed the Security Council. At the first meeting of the Security Council under his leadership, he described the situation in Kazakhstan as undermining the integrity of the state and said that he had asked for help from the CSTO «in overcoming the terrorist threat.» The Collective Security Council of the CSTO sent a collective peacekeeping force to Kazakhstan to normalize the situation in the country. On January 7, Tokayev said that terrorists, including those who had arrived from abroad, continued to resist, and promised to destroy those who did not lay down their arms. In addition, the president noted that all the demands of citizens, expressed in peaceful forms, were heard. On Thursday, January 13, the successful completion of the CSTO mission was announced, now the peacekeepers are returning from Kazakhstan. Nazarbayev
