Kazakh Parties Are Losing Focus With Overly Broad Programs, Expert Says
AI-generated illustration
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
Read also:
Latest news
- Zhezkazgan Airport Resumes Operations After An-12 Emergency Landing
- Middle East Escalation Disrupts Kazakhstan–Dubai Flights
- Three Rare Neolithic Burials Discovered in Kostanay Region
- Minister Promises Better Internet Access for Rural Areas
- Will Trump Visit Kazakhstan?
- Six-Lane Road to Almaty’s Ring Road Planned, Around 200 Land Plots Bought Out
- Housing Sales in Kazakhstan Rise 28% in One Month
- East Kazakhstan Residents Question Gas Station Restrictions on Fuel Canisters
- New Committee to Oversee Crypto Market and Payment System
- MFA Confirms Death of Young Kazakhstani Woman in Antalya
- Source of Shymkent Air Pollution Complaints Still Unclear
- Why Cheap Kazakh Gasoline Is Becoming a Regional Issue
- Southern Kazakhstan Records Magnitude 4.5 Earthquake
- Almaty Residents Oppose Covering City’s Open Irrigation Canals
- Where Are Incomes Highest in Kazakhstan After Almaty?
- Landfill Fire Breaks Out in Astana
- Qatari-Kazakh Gas Pipeline Project Gets Another $500 Million
- Russian City May Name Square After Tokayev’s Father
- Kazakhstanis Will Not Face New Loan Restrictions
- Dead Seals Found Near Aktau May Have Come From Iran, Officials Say
