ASTANA, August 19 (RIA Novosti) - President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Nur Otan party has won 88% of votes in a parliamentary election, with all other parties falling short of the 7% vote share required to enter parliament, preliminary results showed Sunday.
A total of 5,174,000 Kazakh citizens representing 88.05% of the vote cast their ballot papers in favor of the Kazakh leader's party at the parliamentary elections held Saturday, said Kuandyk Turgankulov, chairman of the Central Election Commission of the oil-rich Central Asian state.
