Kazakh Parties Are Losing Focus With Overly Broad Programs, Expert Says
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Kazakhstan’s political parties are facing an efficiency crisis because their programs remain too general and try to speak to everyone at once, Orda.kz reports.
Olga Kaldybayeva, an expert at the Public Opinion Monitoring Department of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President, said this approach has blurred party positioning.
According to her, sociological data show that society expects concrete proposals from politicians, not general slogans.
More than a third of respondents are dissatisfied with how parties work with young people. About 30% point to a lack of attention to residents of remote villages, while almost a quarter say parties do not pay enough attention to freelancers and pensioners.
Large families, people with disabilities, and platform workers, including couriers and taxi drivers, also remain vulnerable groups.
Kaldybayeva divides these groups into two categories: traditional and digital vulnerability. The first group expects politicians to address jobs and infrastructure problems. But parties often replace systematic work with public events, while pensioners increasingly see them not as defenders, but as substitutes for social services.
The second group — freelancers and platform workers — remains politically invisible.
They have no place to gather, and they do not fit into classic party mobilization methods. These people need legal status and transparent rules of work, but parties ignore their interests,Kaldybayeva said.
The expert says parties should move from declarations to a service model. This means giving more power to regional branches, responding to local needs, protecting specific social groups, and bringing the digital sphere into the legal field.
Because local needs differ sharply, party programs need to be decentralized, and regional branches should receive more autonomy. New forms of employment also need to be integrated. Including freelancers and platform workers in the legal and party field would give them real political representation,she said.
Original author: Eva Golovintseva
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