The decree came on Saturday. The Security Council's apparatus becomes a state body of its own, and the wording places it directly under the president's subordination and accountability.
The decree lands in a pause.
The staffing follows an earlier announcement of an added deputy post: a secretary, a first deputy and two more deputies.
The decree lands in a pause. The Kurultai built its committees and accepted the cabinet's resignation on Friday; Olzhas Bektenov's government works in acting status; the president has promised the names of a prime minister and a vice-president within "a week or ten days," a window opened on 23 August that runs out on Wednesday.
The vice-presidency has a longer legal fuse: 2 months from the chamber's first session, to late October. The formation clock for a new cabinet starts only with a prime minister's appointment.