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President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Қазақстан Республикасының Президенті
Presidential standard
Incumbent Kassym-Jomart Tokayev since 20 March 2019
Residence	Ak Orda Presidential Palace
Appointer	Direct popular vote
Term length	5 years, renewable
Inaugural holder	Nursultan Nazarbayev
Formation	24 April 1990
Succession	Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan
Website	(in Kazakh) akorda.kz (in English) www.akorda.kz/en

The President of the Republic of Kazakhstan is the head of state, commander-in-chief and holder of the highest office within the Republic of Kazakhstan. The presidency was created on 24 April 1990, a year before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The first and, until March 2019, the only President of Kazakhstan was Nursultan Nazarbayev.^[1]

None of the presidential elections held in Kazakhstan have been considered free or fair by Western countries or international observers^[2] with issues noted including ballot tampering, multiple voting, harassment of opposition candidates and press censorship.

No.	Name	Portrait	Elected	Term of office		Political party
1	Nursultan Nazarbayev Нұрсұлтан Назарбаев (1940–)			—	24 April 1990	1 December 1991	Communist Party of Kazakhstan
		1 1991		1 December 1991	14 December 1991
(1)				14 December 1991	20 January 1999	Independent
		2 1999		20 January 1999	1 March 1999
(1)				1 March 1999	11 January 2006	Otan
		3 2005		11 January 2006	1 December 2006
(1)				1 December 2006	8 April 2011	Nur Otan
		4 2011		8 April 2011	29 April 2015
		5 2015		29 April 2015	20 March 2019[3] (resigned from office)
2	Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Қасым-Жомарт Тоқаев (1953–)			20 March 2019[4]	Incumbent	Nur Otan

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