Sharmachan Tujaqbai

Sharmachan Tujaqbai

Sharmachan Aitbajuly Tujaqbai ( Kazakh Жармахан Айтбайұлы Туяқбай , Russian Жармахан Айтбайулы Туякбай ; born November 22, 1947 in Novostroika, Kazakhstani SSR. ) Is a Kazakh jurist and politician.

Life

Sharmachan Tujaqbai was born in 1947 in the village of Novostroika in what is now southern Kazakhstan . He graduated in 1971, the State Kazakh Kirov University in Alma-Ata with a degree in jurisprudence from.

After graduation, he worked for the Chimkent Oblast Public Prosecutor's Office and from 1975 was head of the investigative department of the Oblast Public Prosecutor's Office. Between 1978 and 1980 he was active in various bodies of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan . He then became assistant to the First Secretary and head of the Department of Administrative Bodies of the Communist Party Regional Committee in Chimkent . In 1982 he was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the Kazakh SSR. After the Sheltoksan riots and the resignations and dismissals that followed among politicians of the Kazakh SSR, Tujaqbai was also dismissed from the post of deputy attorney general. In the following years until 1990 he was prosecutor for Mangystau Oblast and Guryev Oblast .

After Kazakhstan declared its sovereignty within the Soviet Union in 1990 , Tujaqbai was appointed Kazakhstan's Attorney General. He held this position until 1995 when he was made chairman of the state investigative committee. Between 1997 and 1999 he was a General Attorney General. In the 1999 parliamentary elections, he ran for the Nur Otan party for a seat in the Mäschilis . On December 1st he was elected chairman of the parliament by the MPs. A few months before the next election in September 2004 , he became vice chairman of Nur Otan.

In October 2004, Tujaqbai joined the Kazakh opposition . In a statement issued on October 14, he condemned violations during the election and renounced his mandate as a member of parliament. He became chairman of an alliance of several Kazakh opposition parties and after the alliance “For a Just Kazakhstan” was founded in March 2005, he became its chairman. In September, Sharmachan Tujaqbai was nominated as the presidential candidate of all democratic forces as the most promising opponent of Nursultan Nazarbayev for the presidential election in 2005 . He got around seven percent of all votes and came in second behind Nazarbayev, who achieved more than 90 percent. Since September 2006 he has been chairman of the National Social Democratic Party .

family

Sharmachan Tujaqbai is married and has three children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Туякбай Жармахан Айтбайулы , accessed June 9, 2017 (Russian).
2. ↑ Жармахан Туякбай. Лидер "единственной оппозиционной партии" , accessed on June 9, 2017 (Russian).