Photo: yandex.kz The Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan announced the results of the elections to the Majilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Kazpravda.kz reports. The results of elections in the republic as a whole are established by the CEC, which calculates the total of votes and distributes mandates among political parties that received 7 or more percent of the votes. According to calculations, the votes were distributed as follows: - The People s Party of Kazakhstan - 9.10%; - Party Nur Otan - 71.09%; - Democratic Party of Kazakhstan Ak Zhol - 10.95%; - Party Adal - 3.57%. Thus, three parties crossed the 7% threshold: the Nur Otan Party, the People s Party of Kazakhstan and the Ak Zhol Democratic Party of Kazakhstan.
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.
Kazakhstan
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.
Kazakhstan election authority on Tuesday announced the parliamentary election results in which Nur Otan Party led by former President Nursultan Nazarbayev has