Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan

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]

Chairman of the Kazakh Senate
Incumbent Mäulen Äşimbaev since 4 May 2020
Appointer	Senate of Kazakhstan
Term length	None
Inaugural holder	Omirbek Baigeldi
Formation	30 January 1996
Website	senate.parlam.kz

List of chairmen

№	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office
1		Omirbek Baigeldi (1939–2024)	30 January 1996	29 November 1999
2		Oralbay Abdykarimov (1947–)	1 December 1999	10 March 2004
3		Nurtai Abykayev (1947–)	10 March 2004	11 January 2007
4		Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (1953–)	11 January 2007	15 April 2011
5		Kairat Mami (1955–)	15 April 2011	16 October 2013
6		Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (1953–)	16 October 2013	20 March 2019
7		Dariga Nazarbayeva (1963–)	20 March 2019	2 May 2020
8		Mäulen Äşimbaev (1971–)	4 May 2020	Present

See also

• Chair of the Mazhilis
• Senate of Kazakhstan

References

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.