Kazakhstan s Central Election Commission (CEC) on Tuesday announced that the ruling Nur Otan party grabbed 71.09 per cent of votes and 76 seats in the parliamentary elections held two days ago.The Ak Zhol Democratic Party and the People s Party .
The Ak Zhol Democratic Party and the People s Party of Kazakhstan secured 12 and 10 seats in the Majilis, the lower house of Parliament, winning 10.95 per cent and 9.1 per cent of the votes, respectively, Xinhua new agency reported.Mean
Elections In Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Fail To Satisfy
January 12, 2021 14:06 GMT
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There were expectations that the January 10 elections in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan would fail to truly reflect the will of the people in those two Central Asian neighbors.
Now that preliminary results are in, they look even worse than feared.
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Kazakhstan s vote was its first parliamentary elections since Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev became president nearly two years ago.
Campaigning was barely noticeable, but election officials still claimed that more than 63 percent of voters cast ballots.
Despite Toqaev’s promises of allowing genuine opposition parties to participate in politics, no such parties were registered and allowed on the ballot, though several tried.
Nazarbaev s Daughter Gets Seat In New Kazakh Parliament
January 12, 2021 16:22 GMT
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NUR-SULTAN Darigha Nazarbaeva, the eldest daughter of Kazakhstan s first president, Nursultan Nazarbaev, is one of the 76 lawmakers from the party led by her father who acceded to the newly elected parliament.
Nur Otan, the party led by Nazarbaev, on January 12 published the list of its members, including the 57-year-old Nazarbaeva, elected to the 107-member lower chamber, the Mazhilis, after January 10 elections, which were called “uncompetitive” by international observers.
In May last year, President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev, Nazarbaev s hand-picked successor, removed Darigha Nazarbaeva from the post of speaker of the parliament s upper chamber, the Senate, as well as from her seat in parliament.