Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev was reelected to a new term in his
nation's presidential elections, the Russian Interfax news agency reported on Monday.
He garnered up to 97.7 percent of the votes, thus winning a fifth term in office. Main contender, Turgun
Syzdykov, of the Communist People's Party, took only 1.6 percent of the votes.
The central electoral commission said 95 percent of the eligible voters headed to the polls. Authorities had
established 9,741 ballot stations across the country to receive nine million voters. International observers
oversaw the polling.
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