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        <title><![CDATA[2012 Parliamentary Elections in Kazakhstan]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[On 16th November 2011, President Nazarbayev accepted a petition of 53 Majilis Deputies to dissolve parliament and set elections for January 15, 2012.
This blog will follow the important steps of the election.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[First Parliamentary session of the V convocation: Nigmatulin named speaker of the Majilis; Massimov remains Prime Minister ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:41:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Karim Massimov announced that a vote of confidence will be held during the first Parliamentary session of the V convocation. Under the Constitution of Kazakhstan if the Majilis expresses confidence in the government, the government continues to carry... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[New parliament to hold first meeting on January 20; Nur Otan, Ak Zhol and KPPK determined list of future deputies of Majilis  ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[President Nazarbayev signed the decree "on calling the first meeting of the 5th legislature of the Parliament of Kazakhstan at 10 am on January 20, 2012 in Astana", on 18 January. The government led by Karim Massimov will resign shortly, and candidacy... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nazarbayev: Kazakhstan would no longer welcome hostile observers]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:37:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[According to President Nazarbayev , Kazakhstan will no longer welcome experts, who are hired to criticize the elections while monitoring the election. On 18 January at the Nur Otan party meeting, the President stressed that Nur Otan party victory in the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ak Zhol leader and CIS election observers disagree with OSCE/ODIHR election assessment  ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[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... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kazakh opposition protests election results ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:28:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Around 300 opposition activists and supporters have rallied in Kazakhstan's largest city of Almaty to protest the results of the 15 January 2012 parliamentary elections. According to International observers [OSCE] the elections failed to meet basic democratic... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kazakhstan’s parliamentary vote, though well administered, did not meet key democratic principles]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:46:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Election commission members counting ballots during early parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan, Astana, 15 January 2012. Notwithstanding the government’s stated ambition to strengthen Kazakhstan’s democratic processes and conduct elections in line with... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[US government on the parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:26:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["We welcome the monitoring of the parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe delegations and acknowledge their preliminary assessment that a variety of issues caused... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kazakhstan CEC announced final results of elections  ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On 17 January, the Central Election Commission (CEC) announced the final results of the Majilis elections on 15 January 2012. ' Nur Otan' Party won with 80,99% of all votes. 'Ak Zhol' Party and 'Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan got' made it into... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Parliamentary elections - Kazakhstan]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://kazelection2012.canalblog.com/archives/2012/01/16/23256923.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:36:15 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Nur Otan, Ak Zhol and Communist Party won seats in the Parliament – preliminary results According to the preliminary estimates of the CEC, Nur Otan party won 80.74%, Ak Zhol secured 7.46%, CPP had 7.2%, OSDP followed with 1.59%, Auyl gained 1.46% the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[15 JANUARY ELECTION DAY ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:35:05 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Early parliamentary elections concluded in Kazakhstan on 15 January, with a voter turnout of 75.07 percent, up from some 64 percent in the last elections in 2007. The Kazakh Central Election Committee (CEC) said that preliminary information showed that... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[EU High Representative Catherine Ashton's statement on parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On 17 January, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton made a statement following the parliamentary elections and congratulated the people of Kazakhstan for exercising their democratic rights on 15 January.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[MAJILIS - MASLIKHATS ELECTION DAY -1 !!]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Today, 14 January, each Precinct Election Commission (PEC) should receive its election materials before election day. The deadline for ballots to be delivered is the day before the election (14 JANUARY) VOTING HOURS on Sunday 15 JANUARY 2012: Voting hours... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kazakhstan’s residents are promised housing, 40-tenge per litre petrol and zero VAT ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:36:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Representatives of Kazakhstan’s political parties addressed their potential voters during the TV-debates on Khabar channel. Kazakhstan’s residents were promised housing, 40-tenge per litre petrol and zero VAT., tengrinews.kz reports. First Deputy Chairman... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[SCO observers watched TV-debates of Kazakhstan parties]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[SCO observers watched TV-debates of Kazakhstan parties on 12 January on KHABAR TVvand shared their opinions at the meeting in the Central Election Commission on January 13. “We have watched the TV-debates yesterday. We were also happy to hear the heads... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[PACE and OSCE/ODIHR to issue a joint report on parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:58:48 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights will issue a joint report on the elections to the lower house of Kazakh Parliament," visiting head of the PACE Observation Mission Elsa Papadimitriou... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[URGENT: A group of members of the All-National Social Democratic Party of Kazakhstan deserted party ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:52:37 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On January 12, a group of members of OSDP announced its resignation from the party ranks to form a new movement Zhana Tolkyn (New wave), one of the activists of the new movement Bolatbek Blyalov told. According to him, the political leadership of the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Court dismissed Rukhaniyat's lawsuit against CEC; Mambetalin had declared a hunger strike]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:41:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On 9 January, the lawsuit of the former leader of the Rukhaniyat party Serikzhan Mambetalin who challenged the CEC to cancel its decision to disqualify the party from the forthcoming parliamentary election, was dismissed: "the court believes the claims... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kazakhstani Emergency Minister to visit Zhanaozen; Seven police officers arrested for overstepping confiscation powers in Zhanao]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:39:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The Minister for Emergency Situations of Kazakhstan Vladimir Bozhko is to visit Zhanaozen according to his Twitter page. Meanwhile Akim of the Mangistau region Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov said that the displacement of people from Zhanaozen is unrealistic... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kazakhstani President vetoes Constitutional Council's decision not to hold election in Zhanaozen]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has vetoed the ruling of the Constitutional Council that the holding of parliamentary elections in Zhanaozen was impossible. "By exercising his right of veto the president aimed to address the concerns... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Another 369 election observers accredited by the CEC]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:00:45 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[©Central Election Commission The CEC has accredited another 369 election observers representing 4 international organizations and 13 nations, Head of the Committee Kuandyk Turgankulov announced January 6. “As of today, there are a total of 695 international... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kazakhstan's development model in 21st century discussed in Astana]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:57:17 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[People's Assembly of Kazakhstan held a roundtable to discuss Kazakhstan's development model in the 21st century on Friday in Astana. Representatives of ethnic and cultural associations, candidates for Majilis nominated by the Assembly and others attended... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Polling station at the Kazakh Embassy in China ready for parliamentary elections]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:55:15 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA["The Kazakh Embassy to China opens ballot station 135 for Kazakhstanis living there," chairman of the district election commission of the Beijing election district, Charge d'Affaires, Consul of the Kazakh Embassy to China Kazbek Sarsembekov announced... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[URGENT: 30 members of OSDP deserted the party]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:53:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In Ust Kamenogorsk members of the All-National Social Democratic Party of Kazakhstan deserted the party ranks. 30 ex- members attacked the party authorities' policy valuating their membership as futureless. The members who deserted the party ranks announced... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[No parliamentary elections in Zhanaozen, Elections Committee]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:18:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The city of Zhanaozen (Mangistau region of Kazakhstan) will have no elections held to the Majilis of the Parliament, according to the publicized decision of the decision of the Constitutional Council. "The Constitutional Council clarifies: citizens may... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Special - Zhanaozen ]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:07:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Extension of state of emergency in Zhanaozen unjustified - opposition The opposition party Azat believes there were no grounds for the extension of the state of emergency as the order in Zhanaozen was restored back on December 17, according to the Co-Chairman... ]]></description>
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