Elections of mayors of rural districts, villages and settlements are scheduled for July 25, 2021 in the Karaganda region.
At the first direct elections in July of this year, it is planned to elect 75 rural akims.
The elections will be held in 149 localities, where more than 134 thousand people live, of which more than 81 thousand are voters.
164 election commissions will be involved in conducting direct elections of mayors of the rural level, including: 15 territorial, 149 precinct, in which 952 members of the commissions (territorial election commissions - 105, precinct - 847).
Candidates for akims of cities of district significance, villages, settlements, rural districts can be nominated:
- in the order of self-nomination, i.e. the candidate must enlist the support of 1% of the population living in the corresponding locality);
- from political parties, now they have the opportunity, as well as at the elections of deputies of maslikhats, to nominate their worthy candidates from among their members;
- akims of the regions are also given the opportunity to participate in the nomination of candidates, if less than two candidates have been nominated at the end of the nomination period.
The candidate must meet the requirements stipulated by the Constitutional Law on Elections, article 36 of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan "On Local State Administration and Self-Government in the Republic of Kazakhstan" and the legislation on public service.
The same person may not be elected mayor of the same city of district significance, village, settlement, rural district more than twice in a row.
Since June 26 of this year, according to the calendar plan of the main events of the territorial election commissions in the region, the nomination of candidates for rural akims has begun.
In total, as of June 28 this year, 38 people were nominated by self-nomination.