Ashat Raqymjanov

Ashat Nūrmağambetūly Raqymjanov is a Kazakh politician who is currently serving as Chairman of Nationwide Social Democratic Party since 6 September 2019. Prior to that, he was Chairman of the party's Astana City Branch.

Biography

Rahymjanov was born in 1983 in Tselinograd, Kazakh SSR. In 2005, he graduated from the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Astana with a degree in political science. Rahymjanov was the deputy chairman of the Astana City Branch of the Nationwide Social Democratic Party where he eventually became the chairman of the branch.
On 6 September 2019, at the 15th Extraordinary Congress of the JSDP, Rahymjanov was elected as the chairman of the party by its delegates, assuming his predecessor Ermurat Bapi's role to which later he criticized the move as being "illegal".