{"id":243990,"date":"2026-03-16T11:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=243990"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:36:45","slug":"vast-majority-back-new-constitution-in-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/243990\/","title":{"rendered":"Vast majority back new constitution in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>A nationwide referendum was held in Kazakhstan, in which 86.7% of voters supported the adoption of a new constitution, <a href=\"https:\/\/meduza.io\/news\/2026\/03\/16\/ekzitpoly-bolee-85-uchastnikov-referenduma-v-kazahstane-podderzhali-novuyu-konstitutsiyu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meduza<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>The new Constitution was drafted in just 22 days. It introduces significant changes to the country&rsquo;s state structure.<\/p>\n<p>Among other provisions, it strengthens the powers of the president, prohibits political parties from receiving foreign funding, and defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nationwide referendum was held in Kazakhstan, in which 86.7% of voters supported the adoption of a new constitution, Meduza writes. The new Constitution was drafted in just 22 days. It introduces significant changes to the country&rsquo;s state structure. Among other provisions, it strengthens the powers of the president, prohibits political parties from receiving foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":243909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243991,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243990\/revisions\/243991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}