(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 3. Kazakhstan is
gearing up to shell out a pretty penny for a nationwide vote on
constructing a nuclear power plant, Secretary of the Central
Election Commission (CEC), Sabila Mustafina, shared the details of
the above topic during a recent commission meeting, Trend reports.
The CEC spilled the beans that the ballpark figure for putting
together the referendum will be around 15.5 billion tenge (about
$32.1 million).
“In accordance with Article 28 of the Constitutional Law, the
CEC develops and submits a preliminary budget to the
government.
The President's announcement of the referendum timeframe
prompted us to prepare and quantify the overall expenses, which we
estimate at 15.5 billion tenge,” Mustafina said.
The referendum will be held across Kazakhstan with 10,327 voting
stations nationwide and an additional 78 stations in 63 countries
around the world. The timeline for the referendum process is as
follows:
September 2: Decree on the referendum issued
September 12: Publication of territorial and precinct commission
compositions, and referendum site details
September 15: Presentation of voter lists
September 16-26: Public information campaign about referendum
timing and locations
October 3-5: Ballot distribution
October 5: Day of Silence
October 6 from 7:00 to 20:00: Voting
October 7-8: Vote counting and regional results
October 7-12: Publication of final results in the media
On September 1, 2023, Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart
Tokayev announced that a referendum would be held regarding the
construction of Kazakhstan's first nuclear power plant.
Subsequently, the country listed companies competing to supply
technology for the plant, including China's CNNC with the HPR-1000
reactor, South Korea's KHNP with the APR-1400 reactor, France's EDF
with the EPR-1200 reactor, and Russia's Rosatom with the VVER-1200
and VVER-1000 reactors.
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