Dariga NazarbaevaALMA-ATA, Feb 25The daughter of the ex-president of Kazakhstan, Dariga Nazarbayeva, said that she was resigning as a deputy of the Mazhilis (lower house) of the republic's parliament. , published by the zakon.kz portal. Nazarbayeva also thanked the people of Kazakhstan who voted for the Nur Otan party, on the list of which she entered the parliament, as well as fellow party members and the country's leadership for the trust placed in her. «I will continue to serve my country and its interests. And positions are not needed for this,» she added. Since the beginning of January, Nazarbayeva has never appeared at the meetings of the chamber. It was reported that this was due to the need for rehabilitation after suffering a coronavirus. Earlier, her colleague, a deputy from the ruling Nur Otan party, Aidos Sarym, said that Nazarbayeva should resign. When asked by journalists why the daughter of the ex-president should do this, he replied that the January events in Kazakhstan are connected «with her name» and «there is great public distrust and discontent that must be responded to, this is achieved politically throughout the world through resignation». Nazarbayev, who headed Kazakhstan for almost 30 years, resigned as president on March 20, 2019, but then retained the posts of head of the Security Council, leader of the Nur Otan party in power and head of the Assembly of the people of Kazakhstan. In April 2021, Nazarbayev announced his decision to leave the post of chairman of the ANC and transfer these powers to the current head of the republic. Nazarbayev handed over the powers of the Chairman of the Security Council to Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on January 5, during the period of mass unrest in the country. At an extraordinary congress on January 28, the Nur Otan party elected Tokayev as its chairman, whose candidacy was proposed by the ex-president. On January 18, Nazarbayev addressed the people of Kazakhstan for the first time since the beginning of the riots and stated that Tokayev had full power in Kazakhstan, and the ex-president himself is a pensioner. At the same time, he denied rumors about an alleged «conflict or confrontation in the elite.»
