of Almaty, to serve six-year
terms) and the Majilis (77 seats; 10 out of the 77 Majilis members are
elected from the winning party's lists; members are popularly elected
to serve five-year terms) election results: note - the election results
are for the old Senate structure; Senate - percent of vote by party -
NA%; seats by party - NA; 16 seats up for election in 1999, candidates
nominated by local councils; Majilis - percent of vote by party - NA%;
seats by party - Otan 23, Civic Party 13, Communist Party 3, Agrarian
Party 3, People's Cooperative Party 1, independents 34; note - most
independent candidates are affiliated with parastatal enterprises and
other pro-government institutions elections: Senate - (indirect) last
held 17 September 1999 (next to be held NA December 2005); Majilis -
last held 10 and 24 October and 26 December 1999 (next to be held NA 2004)

Judicial branch: Supreme Court (44 members); Constitutional Council
(7 members)

Political parties and leaders: Agrarian Party [Romin MADINOV]; Alash
[Sabet-Kazy AKATAY]; AZAMAT "Citizen" Movement [Petr SVOIK, Murat
AUEZOV, and Galym ABILSEITOV, cochairmen]; Civic Party [Azat PERUASHEV,
first secretary]; Communist Party or KPK [Serikbolsyn ABDILDIN,
first secretary]; Forum of Democratic Forces [a union of opposition
parties, movements, and NGOs which includes Communists, RNPK, Orleu
"Development" Movement, Pokoleniye "Generation" Pensioners' Movement,
Labor Movement, Association of Independent Mass Media of Central Asia, and
the Tabighat "Nature" Ecological Movement]; Labor and Worker's Movement
[Madel ISMAILOV, chairman]; Orleu "Development" Movement [Seidakhmet
KUTTYKADAM]; Otan "Fatherland" [Sergei TERESCHENKO, chairman]; Pensioners
Movement or Pokoleniye [Irina SAVOSTINA, chairwoman]; People's Congress
of Kazakhstan of NKK [Olzhas SULEIMENOV, chairman]; People's Cooperative
Party of Kazakhstan [Umirzak SARSENOV]; Republican People's Party of
Kazakhstan or RNPK [Akezhan KAZHEGELDIN]; Socialist Party [Petr SVOIK];
United Democratic Party (a new party not yet registered) [leader NA]

Political pressure groups and leaders: Adil-Soz [Tamara KALEYEVA];
Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan [Galymzhan ZHAKIYANOV, Uraz ZHANDOSOV,
Nurzhan SUBKHANBERDIN, Mukhtar ABLYAZOV, Zhanat YERTLESOVA, Bulat ABILOV,
cofounders]; Kazakhstan International Bureau on Human Rights [Yevgeniy
ZHOVTIS, executive director]

International organization participation: AsDB, CCC, CIS, EAP