AlQa'dah 8, 1433, Sep 24, 2012, SPA - Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has proposed Serik Akhmetov as the next prime minister of the Central Asian state, the presidential press service announced on Monday via Twitter. Akhmetov, 54, was previously first deputy prime minister to Karim Masimov, who resigned earlier on Monday to take up a new role as chief of the presidential administration. Members of the lower house of parliament will vote on Akhmetov's nomination, according to a report of Reuters.