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Post by sevenofnine on Mar 18, 2023 11:54:08 GMT -5
Yeah after six month of rioting off and on they were force into elections Voters in Kazakhstan will go to the polls on Sunday, casting their ballots in a snap election, the first since deadly unrest gripped the resource-rich Central Asian nation a year ago. The vote comes after a short but active campaign for seats in the reconfigured lower house of parliament, and falls on the third anniversary of the resignation as president of Nursultan Nazarbayev. Nazarbayev had led Kazakhstan since independence following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and established immense influence. His successor, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, was widely expected to continue Nazarbayev's authoritarian course and even renamed the capital as Nur-Sultan in his predecessor's honor. But the country's political landscape changed markedly after a wave of violence in January 2022 when provincial protests initially sparked by a fuel price hike engulfed other cities, notably the commercial capital, Almaty, and became overtly political as demonstrators shouted “Old man out!” in reference to Nazarbayev. www.euronews.com/2023/03/18/kazakhstan-votes-in-snap-election-a-year-after-deadly-unrest
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