The Central Election Commission has announced the amount of funding allocated for the maslikhat elections. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Sputnik Kazakhstan.
According to commission member Mikhail Bortnik, an additional 3,022 district election commissions will be involved in the upcoming elections. In addition, extra expenses are envisaged in connection with holding elections in 3,113 single-mandate districts.
“Taking all this into account, the total amount of funds needed to organize and conduct the elections amounted to 35 billion 800 million tenge,” Bortnik said.
The bulk of the funding – 70 percent – will be spent on paying the salaries of commission members.
It was previously reported that Kazakhstan will hold early maslikhat elections and that the voting procedure has been announced.