
Kazakh president won re-election landslide, official says CBC \|\| December 06, 2005 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev was re-elected with 91 per cent of the vote, said a top electoral official citing early results a day after the oil-rich Central Asian country went to the polls. Onalsyn Zhumabekov, the chairman of the Central Elections Commission, told reporters on Monday that Nazarbayev's main rival captured less than 7 per cent of the votes cast on Sunday. Zhumabekov said final results weren't expected for 10 days but predicted they wouldn't be very different. Nazarbayev, who has steered the Central Asian country for 16 years, was competing against four challengers but had widely been expected to win another seven-year term. Four exit polls, released early Monday, had suggested he won between 77 per cent and 87 per cent of ballots. But opposition politicians have complained of numerous irregularities, including allegations that people were excluded from voter lists or ordered to support Nazarbayev. Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe were due to render their verdict on the poll on Monday. Election was fair, Nazarbayev says The leader, who first took the office two years before the former Soviet republic gained its independence, has won two previous election victories. But neither were judged to be free or fair by international monitors and observers. After Nazarbayev cast his ballot in the new capital, Astana, he insisted things had changed. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com "This year's election is being held in unprecedented democratic conditions," said Nazarbayev, 65. Kazakh officials predicted opposition parties would hold post-election rallies in a bid to spur the same kind of popular uprising that recently ousted governments in the Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. Opposition politicians promised they wouldn't break a Kazakh law by organizing "spontaneous" demonstrations of that nature. Energey resources fuel country's economic growth The Association of Sociologists and Political Analyst released the largest exit poll Monday, of about 300,000 people. It found Nazarbayev had won 86.9 per cent of the vote. Another poll of about 16,000 voters, by the Kazakhstan Institute for Social and Political Information, suggested Nazarbayev captured 77-per-cent of the votes, ahead of about 13.4 per cent for his closest rival, Zharmakhan Tuyakbai. Nazarbayev has been widely praised for fostering economic growth that has far exceeded that in neighbouring countries of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. He's been aided by the huge oil and gas reserves that have lured billions of dollars from Western, Chinese and Russian investors. The United States, which consumes about 25 per cent of the world's oil production, is particularly interested in Kazakhstan's energy resources, seeing the country as a possible alternative source to the Middle East. Kazakhstan has a population of about 15 million and is slightly more than twice the size of Ontario. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
In Depth The Number 1 Reason YOU became a Slave Coming Soon: 9-11 Liberals, Conservatives and NDP
Archive October November December 2005 27 28 29 30 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Weekly Features

Kazakh president won re-election landslide, official says

CBC || December 06, 2005

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev was re-elected with 91 per cent of the vote, said a top electoral official citing early results a day after the oil-rich Central Asian country went to the polls.

Onalsyn Zhumabekov, the chairman of the Central Elections Commission, told reporters on Monday that Nazarbayev's main rival captured less than 7 per cent of the votes cast on Sunday.

Zhumabekov said final results weren't expected for 10 days but predicted they wouldn't be very different.

Nazarbayev, who has steered the Central Asian country for 16 years, was competing against four challengers but had widely been expected to win another seven-year term.

Four exit polls, released early Monday, had suggested he won between 77 per cent and 87 per cent of ballots.

But opposition politicians have complained of numerous irregularities, including allegations that people were excluded from voter lists or ordered to support Nazarbayev.

Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe were due to render their verdict on the poll on Monday.

Election was fair, Nazarbayev says

The leader, who first took the office two years before the former Soviet republic gained its independence, has won two previous election victories.

But neither were judged to be free or fair by international monitors and observers.

After Nazarbayev cast his ballot in the new capital, Astana, he insisted things had changed.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

"This year's election is being held in unprecedented democratic conditions," said Nazarbayev, 65.

Kazakh officials predicted opposition parties would hold post-election rallies in a bid to spur the same kind of popular uprising that recently ousted governments in the Ukraine, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan.

Opposition politicians promised they wouldn't break a Kazakh law by organizing "spontaneous" demonstrations of that nature.

Energey resources fuel country's economic growth

The Association of Sociologists and Political Analyst released the largest exit poll Monday, of about 300,000 people. It found Nazarbayev had won 86.9 per cent of the vote.

Another poll of about 16,000 voters, by the Kazakhstan Institute for Social and Political Information, suggested Nazarbayev captured 77-per-cent of the votes, ahead of about 13.4 per cent for his closest rival, Zharmakhan Tuyakbai.

Nazarbayev has been widely praised for fostering economic growth that has far exceeded that in neighbouring countries of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

He's been aided by the huge oil and gas reserves that have lured billions of dollars from Western, Chinese and Russian investors.

The United States, which consumes about 25 per cent of the world's oil production, is particularly interested in Kazakhstan's energy resources, seeing the country as a possible alternative source to the Middle East.

Kazakhstan has a population of about 15 million and is slightly more than twice the size of Ontario.

About KDR | | Home | | Weekly Features Archive

Weekly

Chicken Little Terrorist: Al Qaida No. 3

Weekly Features Archive

In Depth

The Number 1 Reason YOU became a Slave

Coming Soon:

9-11

Liberals, Conservatives and NDP