Ghani Qassymov

Ghani Jessenkeldiuly Qassymow ( Kazakh Ғани Есенкелдіұлы Қасымов , Russian Гани Есенгельдинович Касымов ; born May 3, 1950 in Gurjew , Kazakh SSR ) is a Kazakh politician. From its founding in 2000 until its dissolution in 2015, he was party leader of the Party of Patriots of Kazakhstan .

Life

Ghani Qassymow was born in Guryev in 1950 . He began studying at the Kazakh State Kirov University in Alma-Ata in 1967 and moved to the Moscow State Institute for International Relations in 1969, where he graduated in 1974 with a degree in foreign relations.

He began his career in 1975 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kazakh SSR, where he first worked in the consular department and was head of the Ministry's press and information department. From January 1979 to July 1981 he was first secretary of the protocol department and then general secretary of the ministry. Between May 1990 and February 1992 he was an advisor to the President of the Kazakh SSR. After Kazakhstan's independence, he was head of the International Department of the Presidential Administration and the Kazakh Cabinet of Ministers from February 1992. Subsequently, between June 1994 and September 1996 he was the representative of Kazakhstan on trade and economic issues in France . Since September 1996 he has held the post of Chairman of the State Customs Committee of Kazakhstan.

Qassymov ran as one of four candidates in the 1999 Kazakh presidential election . He was able to achieve a share of the vote of around five percent and thus made third place behind incumbent Nursultan Nazarbayev and Serikbolsyn Äbdildin . Before he announced that he would run for election, he was largely unknown on the country's political stage. In the course of the election campaign, however, he became increasingly known, which was largely due to his behavior. He responded to provocative questions from a presenter in a TV interview by throwing a vase of flowers at him. His political demands at the time included the creation of an independent parliament, a professional government and a just judiciary.

After the Kazakh parliamentary elections in 1999, he became a member of the Maschilis for the Äuesow district in Almaty. From August 2007 to September 2013 he was appointed a member of the Senate by the Kazakh President . In the presidential election in 2011 Qassymow came into office again, but could only reach two percent of the vote.

In October 2013, Qassymov became the representative of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs in the Senate. Just a month later, he was appointed chairman of the Council for the Protection of Entrepreneurs' Rights at the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Касымов Гани Есенкельдыулы , accessed June 16, 2017 (Russian).
2. ↑ Radio Free Europe: Kazakhstan: Profiles Of Kazakh Opposition Candidates , accessed June 16, 2016.
3. ↑ Гани Есенгельдинович Касымов. Биография. In: Официальный сайт Гани Касымова. Retrieved November 6, 2019 (Russian).