§ KZ Election Law Art. 55Nomination of candidates to President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

1. The right to nominate presidential candidates belongs to national public associations registered in accordance with the established procedure.
2. The nomination of presidential candidates shall begin on the day following the day of announcement, and shall end at 18.00 local time two months before the election.
3. Candidates to President shall be nominated by the republican public associations on behalf of their supreme bodies. A public association shall be eligible to nominate the candidates who are not members of the given public association. A public association shall be eligible to nominate only one candidate to President. Decision to nominate a candidate to President shall be taken by a majority of votes of members of the supreme body of a republican public association and shall be drawn as an extract from the minutes. The decision of the supreme body of the republican public association shall be:
1) brought to the notice of the candidate to President;
2) submitted to the Central Election Commission with the application of the candidate to President on his/her consent to be nominated as a candidate.
4. Is excluded by the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 15.06.2017 № 75-VI (shall be enforced from the day of its first official publication).
5. If on the day of the end of the term for registration of candidates, less than two candidates to President have been registered, the Central Election Commission shall extend the term of nomination of candidates but not more than for twenty days.
Footnote. Article 55 is with the changes introduced by the Constitutional Laws of RK dated May 6, 1999 № 375-I; April 14, 2004 № 545-II; April 15, 2005 № 44-II; dated 15.06.2017 № 75-VI (shall be enforced from the day of its first official publication); dated 29.06.2018 № 162-VI (shall be enforced upon expiry of ten calendar days after its first official publication).