The Kazakhstan Constitutional Act on elections states that (Article 27.5):
“Taking advantages of the official status by the candidates, who are officials of the state bodies, shall be forbidden. Under the use of advantages of the positional or official status, this Constitutional Act shall consider the following:
1) involvement of persons, who are subordinated or dependent on a candidate, to the conduct of a pre-election campaign, except the cases when the above-mentioned persons conduct campaigning as proxies of a candidate;
2) using the premises occupied by the state bodies to promote the election of a candidate or a political party that nominated a party list, if other candidates, political parties are not guaranteed by the use of these premises on the same conditions.”