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Trend News Agency (8 September 2025)

Madina Usmanova

The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, threw his hat in the ring by proposing to dissolve the Senate and turn the Parliament into a one-house show during his annual Address to the People of Kazakhstan, Trend reports.

According to President Tokayev, the Senate, as the upper chamber of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, was established in 1995 under rather difficult and unstable political conditions in the country, which was just beginning the challenging path to building state foundations.

"I myself had the opportunity to lead the Senate for ten years, and I always regarded this work as a great honor and responsibility. Therefore, it is not easy for me to speak about parliamentary reform from this podium. Nevertheless, today I will express a proposal to create a unicameral Parliament in our country in the foreseeable future. I would like to immediately warn that this is a very serious issue, and haste in making a decision is completely inappropriate," Tokayev noted.

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