Every month more than 500 citizens appeal to the Constitutional Court

Since the beginning of January this year the Constitutional Court received 2.7 thousand appeals from subjects, who entitled to apply to the body of constitutional control and only 25% of which raise issue of verifying the compliance of laws and other regulatory legal acts with the Constitution.

As the analysis shows 99% of appeals were sent by citizens who bring up issues related to:

- disagreement with court decisions - 42%;

- recognition of the NLA or its individual provisions as unconstitutional - 25%;

- issues of access to information - 3.5%;

- observance of labor legislation - 1.3%;

- social security issues - 1.4%;

- penitentiary system -1.4%.

Residents of Astana and Almaty cities, Kostanay, Karaganda and Zhambyl regions are still on leading positions.

In the first month of work the Constitutional Court received 826 appeals, most of which did not meet the requirements of the Constitutional Law. As a result of outreach work including with the legal community, the quality of appeals has changed to a positive direction that is also evidenced by the appeals accepted for constitutional proceedings.

At present, 9 cases have been accepted to constitutional proceedings and  44 appeals are under preliminary consideration by the judges.

From the statistics on appeals it could be said that on average more than 500 citizens appealed to the Constitutional Court on monthly basis:

in February - 680;

March - 536;

April - 568.

For 4 months of work of the Constitutional Court issued 11 normative resolutions were, 8 of which were on the appeals of of citizens.

Normative resolutions could be found on the following link: https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/ksrk/activities/directions?lang=ru