The practice of rotating heads of aiyl okmotu has been discontinued

Today, 25 September, at a meeting of the Jogorku Kenesh, deputies supported in three readings a bill ‘On Amendments to the Law ’On Local State Administration and Local Self-Government Bodies". Thus, the rule according to which a person born in a certain village cannot be appointed as the head of the aiyl okmotu there has been abolished.

On 11 September, at a meeting of the Jogorku Kenesh, Toraga Nurlanbek Turgunbek uulu stated that the policy of rotating heads of aiyl okmotu had not proven itself and spoke about the need to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

Toraga noted that, according to the previous law, those wishing to become heads of aiyl okmotu were assigned to lead other rural areas, not their own.

"However, in practice, this measure did not produce the expected results. While the policy of rotation among city and regional heads, akims, proved effective, it did not work among aiyl okmotu. Today, there are two to three vacant positions in each district. People do not come to work from other villages. And if they do come, they leave after two to three, or at most four to five months," said Nurlanbek Turgunbek uulu.

Kudaibergen Bazarbayev, Director of the State Agency for Civil Service and Local Self-Government under the Cabinet of Ministers, also stressed that the current legal norm has not proven itself, stating that the relevant changes were made to the law at the request of the torag.