Polling stations have closed in Kazakhstan for a referendum to overhaul the constitution, as the Central Asian nation’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev aims to reform the political system after the three-decade rule of founding leader Nursultan Nazarbayev.
The constitutional reform is part of a drive for a “New Kazakhstan” spearheaded by Tokayev, who was hand-picked by Nazarbayev to replace him as president in 2019.
