Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Kazakh elections did not meet democratic standards

The mission of observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said Monday that the presidential elections in Kazakhstan on Sunday did not correspond to democratic standards. "These elections show that, unfortunately, democratic institutions in Kazakhstan are not developed to the same extent that economic," said the head of the OSCE mission, Holland's Daan Everts, in a press conference in Astana, according to said the Kazakh capital from the Russian agency Interfax.

President Nursultan Nasarbayev, which governs the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan for more than 20 years, was reelected with 95.5% of the votes for a new term until at least 2016. The data were announced by the Electoral Commission in the capital Astana, according to local media

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