NUR-SULTAN, May 2 (Xinhua) -- Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Saturday signed a decree that terminates the power of Dariga Nazarbayeva as the speaker of the upper house of parliament, the presidential office said in a brief statement.
"I express my gratitude to Nazarbayeva for her active and fruitful work," Tokayev tweeted.
Nazarbayeva was appointed in March 2019 as the senate speaker, a position second in line to the head of the state.
Nazarbayeva, the eldest daughter of Kazakhstan's first president Nursultan Nazarbayev, was born in 1963 and studied at Moscow State University.
Nazarbayeva had served as president of major Kazakh media outlet Khabar TV, the country's deputy prime minister and vice speaker of the lower house of parliament, before becoming a member of the upper house of parliament in 2016. Enditem
