Kurultai Vote Raises Stakes for Parties, Parliament and Foreign Policy, Experts Say

The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s first election to the new Kurultai is reshaping more than the country’s parliamentary architecture, said experts at an Aug. 24 meeting in Astana organized by the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies (KazISS). They pointed to voter turnout, a bigger role for political parties and growing geopolitical competition around Central Asia at a… The post Kurultai Vote Raises Stakes for Part...

By Fatima Kemelova