Ak Zhol leader and CIS election observers disagree with OSCE/ODIHR election assessment

The leader of Ak Zhol Party does not agree with the OSCE/ODIHR observer mission's assessment on parliamentary elections. "Whatever they say, they treat our country as something strange to them," Peruashev said on 16 January. CIS Parliamentary Assembly observers are also surprised with OSCE/ODIHR opinion on elections. "Almost 300 CIS observers watched the balloting. We had a chance to visit more than 2,000 polling stations and saw or registered nothing about what the OSCE/ODIHR observers say in their report" said the Head of mission and First Vice-Speaker of the Federation Council Alexander Torshin.