Overview
- Election authorities reported 87.15% voted in favor, 9.83% opposed, with turnout at 73.1% and more than 146,000 ballots declared invalid.
- The single-question referendum met the legal turnout threshold, with voting held at over 10,000 domestic polling stations and 71 abroad.
- The new charter replaces the bicameral legislature with a 145-seat Kurultai elected solely by party lists for five-year terms.
- The president gains unilateral authority to appoint the prosecutor general, heads of the Constitutional and Supreme Courts, the central bank chief, and the national security chief, and may issue decrees with the force of law when parliament is not sitting.
- The overhaul restores a vice presidency and allows dissolution of the Kurultai if nominees for vice president, prime minister, or speaker are twice rejected, while also creating a Halk Kenesi with legislative initiative whose formation rules are unspecified; rights groups reported pressure and administrative arrests targeting critics during the campaign.