Social and Cultural Rights

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• Right to guaranteed free secondary education in state educational establishments.

• Right to receive on a competitive basis a higher education in state higher educational establishments.

• Right to pay and receive an education in private educational establishments.

• Right to protection of health.

• Right to free, guaranteed, extensive medical assistance.

• Right to a minimum wage and pension, and guaranteed social security in old age, in case of disease, disability or loss of a breadwinner and other legal grounds.

• Right to housing.

• Right to protection of marriage and family, motherhood, fatherhood and childhood.

• Right to care of children and their upbringing.

• Right to the environment favorable for the life and health.

Constitutional Obligations

• Everyone must observe the Constitution, legislation of the RK and respect the rights and freedoms of other persons.

• Everyone must respect the state symbols of the Republic.

• Everyone must pay legally established taxes, fees and other obligatory payments.

• Citizens have a sacred duty to defend the Republic.

• Citizens of the RK must care for the protection of historical and cultural heritage, and preserve monuments of history and culture.

• Citizens of the RK must preserve nature and protect natural resources.

Also Constitution provides that:

• Able-bodied children of age must take care of their disabled parents.

• Secondary education is obligatory.

Status of President of RK (1)

The President is:

• The head of state who represents RK within the country and in international relations;

• The highest official of the state who determines the main directions of the domestic and foreign policy of RK;

• The arbiter who ensures concerted functioning of all branches of state power and responsibility of the institutions of power before the people.

• The symbol and guarantor of inviolability of the Constitution.

• The President, his honor and dignity are inviolable.

Election of the President of RK

• The President is elected by:

– universal,

– equal and,

– direct suffrage,

– under a secret ballot,

– by the citizens of the Republic who have come of age.

• A citizen of the Republic is eligible for the office of the President of the RK if he is:

– citizen of RK by birth,

– not younger than forty,

– has a perfect command of the state language,

– has lived in Kazakhstan for not less than fifteen years.

Election of the President of RK (2)

• Regular elections of the President are held on the first Sunday of December.

– First Round based on Absolute Majority (the candidate wins who receives more than 50 percent of the votes).

– If needed, Second Round is conducted which is based on Relative Majority (the candidate who receives the larger number of votes is deemed elected).

• President is elected for a five year term.

• One and the same person may not be elected as the President of the Republic more than two times in a row.

– Note: This rule does not apply to the First President of the RK.

Date: 2015-01-12; view: 942