Because he is old and has health problems. Wants to avoid situations like in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, where an ex-president's legacy is wiped out and their family imprisoned.

2:24 pause and look at his eyes. Wtf?

No matter what , Kazakhstan made remarkable development in all fields under his 30 years of leadership.

He resigned as he wanted to be able to spend more time playing FIFA..

He is clever to leave before they kick him out.

Kazakhstan under Nazarbayev reign was moved away from democracy and became a totalitarian country where any political opinions of against the Nazarbayev politics were prohibited. He stepped down but he gain more power as the Father of the Nation. Now he have more control over a next president

Easy answer: to avoid Kazakhstan of being a battleground of influence between Russia and the US

That's great

Nazabayev is a good dictator,he has made kazashtan become rich,maybe more than turkey im gdp per capita

The news that Kazakhastan President , Nursultan Nazarbayev , has resigned on 19 March 2019 after 3 decades in power , surprised many within and outside the country , particularly when his present term was to last next year in 2020. The reason given by him for his resignation is that he wanted new generation to lead the country. Whatever , readers may find it apt to know this Vedic astrology writer’s precise prediction in article - “ Vedic astrology predictions for world covering just coming year 2019” - also shortened as “ World Predictions 2019” brought to public domain last year in November -December 2018. It was predicted that political turmoil or major worrisome concerns to the existing Governments , among other things , were likely in countries like Kazakhstan. These concerns were predicted to begin revealing a little before the year 2018 closes , passing on to first three months of 2019 , more so in February -March. It seems the prediction has been meaningful.

And also change the name of the Kazakistan capital to his name. Is that proper thing to do?

He finally pilfered enough.

Man is playing the Bouteflika card

whatever the inner game is but the fact is that he made Kazakhstan the example of fastest growing economies in the world , the same central asia is suffering from poverty with the same scale of natural resourses as Kazakhstan have .

I won't be surprised if I won't be able to get to my motherland

Full day until our next break up

Can be health problems.

Congratulations to Aljazeerah English (Online) for assembling a very good tele-conferenced panel of various specialists with the likes of Yevgeniy Zhovtis, Alex Melikishvili and especially William Courtney on this issue of Nazarbayev's resignation and "succession". Zhovtis was right in viewing the political reforms so far, as inadequate and also that the country lacks really independent main institutions. Privatizations too are limited to a group of oligarchs. But then, this is not a situation unique to Kazakhstan only, in fact many other successful countries across Eurasia and the rest of the world too share this clearly less than ideal attribute. Similarly, Melikishvili too was spot on, in discerning signs of possible political maneuvering in this unfolding succession excercise and was absolutely right in identifying the heterogeneous character of Kazakhstan's ruling circles, unlike the situation in countries like Singapore. Still, to the extent that there is any similarity, Tokayev actually figures as a seat-warmer, something akin to Goh Chok Tong in Singapore. Not entirely a bad idea or model when one comes to think of it. The eminent William Harrison Courtney was even better when he objectively listed Nazarbayev's various truely wise policies, displaying therewith a maturity that otherwise belies Kazakhstan's relative inexperience in international affairs. For the rest of the world, only a person of Courtney's stature and experience can competently identify Dariga's lack of political base in Kazakhstan. Similarly, he was totally right in bluntly saying that Kazakhstan has perforce to be pro-Russia even as it balances in the other powers, in the years ahead. Kudos to all of them for a decent analysis of the topic !

NEPOSTISM @ highest level

Borat should be next the president of Kekistan

The U.S. panelist looks exactly like Trump himself, but from a parallel universe where Trump is a Russian...

Free Kazakistan from Putler!!!!

He is a very unpopular in his own country and he was shooting demonstrators in last few years and any protest would be quashed and people arrested.All the power is distributed within his clan and he has billions stolen from country!!! While OIL rich Kazakhstans citizens work abroad for peanuts ,rich Kazahstanis buy properties in every capital of western world .Population polarised massively! Look what Dubai done in 30 years! And in the end they are changing capital Astana"s name to Nursultan!As well as major roads in every city of Kazahstan! People are furious! Kim Jon Un and Mugabe alike are just amateurs comparing to Nursultan Nazarbaev....Borat movie is becoming documentary before our eyes!!! Thief couldnt even go gracefully! And he is still in power.He is the head of the security council and that effectively makes him still the head of the state.He done many laws beforehand! dont be fooled by this dictator.Ask any poor Kazakhstani or go to proper videos and read Kazahstanis comments! Peace!

Borat will be very sad now! 😉

Nursultan sir charad spars

Borat to be the next pressident

Nursultan Nazarbayev make kazakhstan great again

Trump's gonna want to put a president that looks like Obama named Jovan Guiadov.

Borat is in shock, what is "khappening" in my Boratistan? :) Thank god he is gone from this position, now we wait his resignation from other ones that he gave himself.

Borat overthrew him?

BORAT=nazarbayev

He is dictator