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Kazakh ruling party sweeps to victory with over 70%

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Reuters
11 January, 2021, 09:55 am
Last modified: 11 January, 2021, 10:00 am

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Kazakh ruling party sweeps to victory with over 70%

The exit poll conducted by the pollster Public Opinion showed two other pro-government parties who are already in the parliament crossing the seven percent vote threshold

Reuters
11 January, 2021, 09:55 am
Last modified: 11 January, 2021, 10:00 am
Members of a local electoral commission open a ballot box after polls closed during a parliamentary election in Almaty, Kazakhstan January 10, 2021. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev
Members of a local electoral commission open a ballot box after polls closed during a parliamentary election in Almaty, Kazakhstan January 10, 2021. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev

The Nur Otan party led by Kazakhstan's powerful ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev has won a landslide in Sunday's lower house election, exit poll data showed.

The exit poll conducted by the pollster Public Opinion showed two other pro-government parties who are already in the parliament crossing the seven percent vote threshold.

Nur Otan won almost 72% of the vote, according to the Public Opinion research institute, a local pollster.

Although four parties ran in the election apart from Nur Otan, none has openly criticised Nazarbayev or his handpicked successor President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, focusing their fire on lower-level officials and their policies instead, an arrangement that government critics say is meant to create an illusion of pluralism.

Dozens of opposition supporters rallied at the main squares of Kazakhstan's biggest city Almaty on Sunday, shouting "Boycott!" and "Nazarbayev go away!".

Police in riot gear quickly surrounded them and detained a few dozen people, although the interior ministry later said they were all released shortly afterwards with no arrests.

Members of a local electoral commission count ballots after polls closed during a parliamentary election in Almaty, Kazakhstan January 10, 2021. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev
Members of a local electoral commission count ballots after polls closed during a parliamentary election in Almaty, Kazakhstan January 10, 2021. REUTERS/Pavel Mikheyev

The Nationwide Social Democratic Party, the main opposition party in the Central Asian nation, boycotted the vote. Another opposition movement, the Democratic Party, failed to secure official registration ahead of the vote.

While the election outcome will dampen hopes of political reform encouraged by Kazakhstan's Western partners, it will help to ensure stability that has helped the country of 19 million attract hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign investment, primarily into the oil, gas and mining sectors.

In an attempt to modernise the system without relinquishing his party's tight grip on power, Tokayev has overseen the introduction of quotas for women and under-29s in political parties' candidate lists.

"(Further) reforms are being prepared," Tokayev told reporters after casting his ballot in the capital city of Nur-Sultan. "Reforms must not stop."

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