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21 March 2016, 00:31 Nur Otan Party Wins 82% of Vote in Parliamentary Election, Exit Poll ASTANA 21 March 2016, 00:31 Nur Otan Party wins 82% of vote in parliamentary election, Exit poll ASTANA. KAZINFORM - According to exit poll, Nur Otan Party has won 82% of vote in parliamentary election, reported Yulia Kuchinskaya - director of the Institute for Democracy during a briefing in Central Communications Service. According to the results: Nur Otan won 82% of vote, the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan - 7.17%, Ak Zhol - 7.22%, Birlik - 0.35%, All-National Social- Democratic Party - 1 , 21%, Auyl - 2.05%. The survey covered 14 regions and cities of Astana and Almaty. Exit poll was conducted from 7 am to 8 pm at 750 polling stations 513 of which in urban and 237 in rural areas. Total 75 000 of voters were interviewed. 9840 polling stations including 65 abroad have been involved in the elections. The polling stations in Washington, New York and Ottawa will be closed March 21 at 6 am Astana time. 20 March 2016, 21:38 Parliamentary Elections 2016: Voting ends ASTANA. KAZINFORM Voting in the election of deputies to the Majilis of the Kazakh Parliament and territorial maslikhats came to an end, Kazinform reports. “75.16% of all registered voters cast their votes by 18:00 Astana time. This a record-breaking indicator compared to the previous parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan,” member of the Central Election Commission M. Sarsembayev told a briefing today. Kazakhstanis voted from 7:00 a.m. till 08:00 p.m., in western regions voting ended an hour later (09:00 Astana time) for time difference. 9,840 voting stations including 65 abroad were opened today. Some of them are still working. The voting stations in Washington, New York and Ottawa will be closed March 21 at 6:00 Astama time. Election of Majilis deputies from the People’s Assembly of Kazakhstan will be held tomorrow, March 21. The Decree on dissolution of the Majilis of the 5th convocation and on setting the early elections was signed by the Head of State on January 20, 2016. The Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan has registered six lists of political parties which include 234 candidates to the Majilis deputies' seats. Ruling party Nur Otan, Akzhol, Auyl, the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan, Nationwide Social and Democratic Party and Birlik will compete for the seats in the Majilis. 10,825 candidates have been registered for the maslikhat deputies' seats. 964 internatinal observers will monitor the election process. 13,399 election commissions are involved in organization and holding of the elections. More than 9 mln people are expected to cast their votes. 19 March 2016, 16:32 CEC: Election commissions ready for holding voting ASTANA. KAZINFORM Chairman of the Central election Commission Kuandyk Turgankulov met with a delegation of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation today. Those attending the meeting were member of the Russian CEC S.Shapiyev, member of the Kazakh CEC T.Okhlopkova as well as representatives of the election commissions of the republics and regions of the Russian Federation, employees of the Russian CEC administration. Turgankulov informed the delegation of the activities of the Kazakh CEC on preparation and holding the partliamentary elections and told about the peculiarities of the electoral campaign and the course of preparation for voting day. “Election commissions are ready for holding the voting,” he said. Mutual cooperation issues were also raised during the meeting. 17 March 2016, 12:45 301 CIS observers to monitor parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan ASTANA. KAZINFORM - The CIS Election Observers Mission is ready, representative of the CIS Observers Mission Yevgeny Kozyak told at the briefing of the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan. According to him, 301 observers representing Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, CIS Parliamentary Assembly, Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia Union State, Parliamentary Assembly of the CSTO and the Executive Committee of the CIS are accredited for monitoring the elections in Kazakhstan. "In terms of the number of observers, it is the largest mission of international observers. The majority of them arrive tomorrow or the day after tomorrow," Y. Kozyak told. He also informed that the meetings between representatives of the mission and the Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan, Supreme Court and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were held within the election monitoring. 16 March 2016, 14:00 Almost 14 thousand election related materials published during one month in Kazakhstan ASTANA. KAZINFORM - 13898 election related materials were published in the period from January 20 through February 19, representative of the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan Marat Sarsembayev informed. He noted that the monitoring of the materials related to the election campaign published in the mass media was held in order to ensure control over observance of the norms of the election law. The monitoring embraced 48 national newspapers, 15 magazines, 16 national TV channels, 12 radio channels, 174 regional newspapers, 31 regional TV channels and 162 most popular social and political Internet resources. "13898 materials about elections in Kazakhstan were published in the mass media in the period from January 20 through February 19, 2016," M. Sarsembayev told at the briefing in Astana. 14 March 2016, 12:12 CIS Mission didn't detect serious violations of election process in Kazakhstan - Y. Sloboda ASTANA. KAZINFORM - The CIS Observers Mission did not detect any serious violations of the election process in Kazakhstan, head of the headquarters of the CIS Mission Yevgeny Sloboda told at the briefing of the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan. "We visited regional and district voting stations and did not detect any serious violations," Y. Sloboda said. "We do have anything to report on. We have detected some minor violations that happen in any country during such processes. For example, at some voting stations we had to ask to separate the voting booths. Those are just technical issues," Y. Sloboda said. 09 March 2016, 18:05 Ombudsman and Head of OSCE/ODIHR Mission discussed issues of elections to Majilis of Kazakhstan ASTANA. KAZINFROM - Ombudsman of Kazakhstan Askar Shakirov met with head of the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission in Kazakhstan Boris Frlec. The sides discussed the issues of holding of the upcoming parliamentary elections on March 20, ensuring of equality of parties, observance of election rights of the people with accordance with the national law and international standards and the mandate of the human rights institution on consideration of corresponding complaints. The Ombudsman familiarized the guests with the work of his institution in the sphere of consideration of the people's addresses regarding ensuring their election rights. "The right to elect and to be elected is one of the key rights for functioning of the civil state. The Human Rights Protection Institution has the right to consider complaints of people in this sphere and in cooperation with interested bodies and election commissions to take the necessary measures. However, there was no complaint about any violations during the presidential elections in 2015," A. Shakirov said. B. Frelc familiarized with the mandate of the Ombudsman in the sphere of ensuring the rights of the people and noted that he was an important institute making the country's functioning system whole. 05 March 2016, 11:47 CEC registers People's Assembly candidates running for Majilis seats ASTANA. KAZINFORM - The Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan has registered 9 candidates nominated by the People's Assembly and running for Majilis seats. "9 candidates nominated by the People's Assembly of Kazakhstan were registered by the Central Election Commission on March 2," Secretary of the commission Bakhyt Meldeshov said at a briefing on Saturday. He added that 7 out of 9 candidates are males. Earlier it was reported that the People's Assembly nominated the following candidates: Sautbek Abdrakhmanov, Vladimir Bozhko, Natalya Zhumadildayeva, Roman Kim, Narine Mikaelyan, Akhmed Muradov, Shaimardan Nurumov, Yuri Timoshchenko and Shakir Khakhazov. Recall that Kazakhstan will hold snap parliamentary elections on March 20. 03 March 2016, 13:03 CEC to hold debates among political parties ASTANA. KAZINFORM The Central Election Commission will hold the debates among the political parties participating in the Parliamentary Elections 2016. As member of the CEC Lyazzat Suleimen told Kazinform, the time and regulations of the debates will be additionally announced. She added also that the CEC observes the agitation activities of the parties. “Equal coverage of their pre-election campaign is ensured in news reports. The agitation campaigns are financed from the parties’ election fund,” noted Suleimen. 01 March 2016, 11:59 CEC accredited 20 more observers from intl organizations and seven foreign countries ASTANA. KAZINFORM The Central Election Commission has accredited 20 more observers from two international organizations and seven foreign countries. “As per a resolution adopted by the CEC upon the recommendation of the Kazakhstan Foreign Affairs Ministry, 20 more observers from two international organizations and seven foreign countries have been accredited,” member of the CEC Tatyana Okhlopkova said today during a sitting of the Central Election Commission. 2 of them are from the CIS Mission; 4 are from the OSCE/ODIHR Misssion; 2 are from the Republic of Armenia, 2 – from Azerbaijan; 2- from Georgia; 2 – from Latvia; 2 – from Malaysia; 2 – from the Russian Federation and 2 are from Estonia. Thus, as of March 1, 2016б the CEC has accredited 175 observers from two international organizations’ missions (OSCE/ODIHR and CIS), one international organization (OIC) and eight foreign countries. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has accredited 112 representatives of foreign mass media from 26 countries as of February 29, 2016. The accreditation of observers from foreign countries and international organizations by the CEC will last till March 14, 2016.
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