New centre-right party registered in Kazakhstan

ASTANA, 29 December - The Ministry of Justice has accepted an application from the Kazakhstani centre-right party "Atameken" on registration, the party told Kazakhstan Today.

"As per the law of Kazakhstan on political parties, the Ministry of Justice has accepted an application on registration from the Kazakhstani centre-right party "Atameken" that presented a list of more than 60 thousand citizens who had joined the party in the 2-month period after the founding congress in compliance with the law," - the press release said.

In late October delegates of the founding congress of "Atameken" party said that the part founded by them supported the goals stated by the President of Kazakhstan. "We establish our own political party in order to support the head of state and his goal of accession to the world's 50 most developed states," - Yerzhan Dosmuhamedov, chairman of the new party and member of the Council of Entrepreneurs under the President of Kazakhstan, said.

The new party pursues a goal of "preventing corruption in the Kazakhstani economy. The centre-right party is against the state domination in business and the privatisation by state officials. We are against the commercialisation of the state and its interference into the economy," - the party programme says.

The party proposes to carry out reforms in the military, social, housing, communal, administrative, and banking areas, to implement changes in the migration and language politics, in the village, etc.