On the 22nd local time, the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan (hereinafter referred to as the Central Election Commission) announced on the same day that President elect Tokayev would be sworn in on November 26. Kazakhstan held the presidential election on the 20th local time, which is the seventh presidential election since independence in 1991. According to Nurlan Abdrov, chairman of the Kazakh Central Election Commission, about 8.3 million voters participated in the presidential election, accounting for 69% of the total registered voters. According to the preliminary results, the current President Tokayev won a total of 6456392 votes, with a voting rate of 81.31%, far exceeding the other five candidates for re-election. In addition, 460484 votes were cast for the option of "against all candidates", which was established for the first time, accounting for 5.8% of the total. According to the Kazakh news agency, Tokayev said after voting at No. 59 polling station in the capital Astana on the 20th that the government would not resign after the presidential election and political reform must continue. In addition, he said that new political parties might emerge before the parliamentary elections, and Kazakhstan would continue to adhere to an all-round foreign policy. Tokayev was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 1953 and graduated from Moscow Institute of International Relations in 1975. In 2019, Tokayev succeeded Nazarbayev as President of Kazakhstan. (Liu Xinshe)