Legal Regulation of the Procedure for Elections of Deputies of the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan

The article is devoted to the analysis of the electoral process during the election of deputies of the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The electoral legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan is at the stage of constant improvement. During almost twenty-five years of operation of the constitutional law "On elections in the Republic of Kazakhstan", there were made many amendments and additions to it, that became the object of research at the writing of this article. The lower chamber of the representative body of the Republic of Kazakhstan is formed through the election of deputies of the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which has legislative powers. The article analyses the norms of electoral legislation regulating the participation of political parties and other public associations in the procedure of elections of deputies to the Majilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The authors, on the basis of the detailed study of the novels and some collisions of electoral legislation, propose the author's position on the issues of regulation of the procedure for the withdrawal of candidates for deputies from political parties and further improvement of the legal norms in this part. The methodological basis of this research was composed the tested general scientific and particular scientific methods of cognition of legal reality, which contributed to the comprehensive and most complete consideration of the constitutional-legal institution of elections as the element of direct democracy in Kazakhstan. © 2021. All Rights Reserved.