Chairman of the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan Nurlan Abdirov said that six of the seven parties preliminarily pass into the parliament of the republic.His words are quoted by TASS. He said that the Amanat party won 53.9% of the vote, the People's Party of Kazakhstan - 6.8%, the Democratic Party of Kazakhstan "Ak Zhol" - 8.41%. Also, for the first time, the Lower House of Parliament will include the People's Democratic Patriotic Party "Auyl" (10.9% of the vote), the Party "Republic" (6.59%) and the opposition National Social Democratic Party (5.2
Kazakhstan lowers parliament election threshold from 7 to 5%
AKIPRESS.COM - President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed into law the amendments to the elections law that will enable reducing the threshold for parties to win parliament seats from 7% to 5%.
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Photo courtesy of the source The First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan - Elbasy Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed Nurlan Nigmatulin s candidacy for the post of the head of the Nur Otan faction in the Majilis, Kazpravda.kz reports. The First President of Kazakhstan is taking part in a meeting of the parliamentary faction of the Nur Otan party, Elbasy s press secretary Aidos Ukibay twitted. During the meeting of the faction, the Chairman of the Nur Otan party proposed the candidacy of Nurlan Nigmatulin for the post of the head of the party s faction in the Majilis of the Parliament, Ukibay said.
Photo: yandex.kz The Central Election Commission of the Republic of Kazakhstan announced the results of the elections to the Majilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Kazpravda.kz reports. The results of elections in the republic as a whole are established by the CEC, which calculates the total of votes and distributes mandates among political parties that received 7 or more percent of the votes. According to calculations, the votes were distributed as follows: - The People s Party of Kazakhstan - 9.10%; - Party Nur Otan - 71.09%; - Democratic Party of Kazakhstan Ak Zhol - 10.95%; - Party Adal - 3.57%. Thus, three parties crossed the 7% threshold: the Nur Otan Party, the People s Party of Kazakhstan and the Ak Zhol Democratic Party of Kazakhstan.