ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Voters in Kazakhstan on Sunday went to the surveys to pick legislators in the lower home of parliament, which is being reconfigured in the wake of fatal discontent that grasped the resource-rich Central Asian country a year earlier.
Although the electoral field was abnormally big with 2 freshly signedup celebrations and hundreds of specific prospects signingupwith the race, turnout appeared fairly uninterested — about 54% of eligible citizen cast tallies, according the nationwide elections commission.
The early election came on the 4th anniversary of the resignation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who had led Kazakhstan because self-reliance following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and who had developed enormous impact.
His follower, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, was extensively anticipated to continue Nazarbayev’s authoritarian course and even relabelled the capital as Nur-Sultan in his predecessor’s honor.
But the nation’s political landscape altered significantly after a wave of violence in January 2022, when provincial demonstrations atfirst s