Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has said that the country is making a decisive shift away from a super-presidential system of governance.

President Tokayev made these remarks at an expanded government meeting, The Caspian Post reports via Kazakh media.

Tokayev noted that the provisions laid out in the draft of the new Constitution formalize the logic and continuity of Kazakhstan’s political development, built around the concept of a “strong president, an influential parliament, and an accountable government.”

Taking a broader view of recent political reforms, the president stressed that Kazakhstan is definitively abandoning the super-presidential model and transitioning toward a presidential republic with a powerful and authoritative parliament.

The proposed constitutional changes, Tokayev added, naturally extend this trajectory. Together with political reforms implemented in recent years - including the 2022 constitutional reform - they raise the issue of a full reset of the country’s constitutional foundations, marking a new stage in Kazakhstan’s state-building process.