Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov | |
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Minister of Education and Science | |
In office 22 September 2010 – 2 September 2013 |
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President | Nursultan Nazarbayev |
Prime Minister |
Karim Massimov Serik Akhmetov |
Preceded by | Zhanseit Tuymenbayev |
Succeeded by | Aslan Sarinzhipov |
Personal details | |
Born |
Almaty Region, Soviet Union (now Kazakhstan) |
18 August 1953
Political party | Nur Otan |
Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov (born 18 August 1953) is a Kazakh politician who was Chairman of Otan and after renamed Nur Otan, the largest political party in Kazakhstan. and acting chairman of Nur Otan party, created by merging a number of other parties into Otan.
Zhumagulov told reporters in a news conference in Astana on 25 September 2006 that Otan and Asar political parties officially merged. "In all, the merged Otan party has a membership of 700,000, which makes it the country's largest political party."
Since 2007 Nur Otan has been headed by President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
From 2010 to 2013, he held the post of Minister of Education and Science.