Kazakhstan's election 2007

international | politics / elections | other press Sunday August 19, 2007 19:30 by Borat

Kazakhstan as we all know is where Borat comes from. & in keeping with their post-Soviet democratic traditions they've just celebrated a general election with results which could probably cause even Ahern or Brown to go quite puice green with envy.

The Fatherland's Ray of Light "Nur Otan" party has won all the seats in the parliament. Quite. every single one of them.

Of course people are wondering were the elections fair - but nobody is calling Jimmy Carter quite yet because seemingly according to some mystical election pillar of Western life, there has never been a fair election in Kazakhstan.......so it doesn't matter then. Meanwhile the Kazakhs look forward to oil and gas revenue the new Russian/Chinese pipeline through their country will bring. Puice. lovely colour.

links -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur-Otan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6949764.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6952452.stm
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1654203,0....html
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/...shtml
http://euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=438361&...lng=1