The first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Kazakhstan" id="mwARI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of Kazakhstan">President of Kazakhstan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursultan_Nazarbayev" id="mwARM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nursultan Nazarbayev">Nursultan Nazarbayev</a>, resigns from office after nearly three decades, leaving <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Senate_of_Kazakhstan" id="mwARQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan">Senate Chairman</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassym-Jomart_Tokayev" id="mwARU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kassym-Jomart Tokayev">Kassym-Jomart Tokayev</a> as the acting President and successor.<sup about="#mwt63" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_19#cite_note-10" id="mwARY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwARc">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"><cite about="#mwt60" class="citation news cs1" id="mwBmo"><a class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47628854" id="mwBms" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Kazakh leader Nazarbayev resigns after three decades"</a>. <i id="mwBmw">BBC News</i>. 2019-03-19<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBm0">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBm4">2023-08-17</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt60" class="Z3988" id="mwBm8" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC+News&amp;rft.atitle=Kazakh+leader+Nazarbayev+resigns+after+three+decades&amp;rft.date=2019-03-19&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-asia-47628854&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+19"></span></span>