The strength of the outgoing president declines with an undisputed ability to manage with rigor and effectiveness the composite internal situation, represented by 140 different ethnic groups and many religious denominations.
No one, neither in the West nor in Asia's interest upon the occurrence of dramatic experiences such as those of the notorious so-called Arab Spring.
Kazakhstan is currently regarded internationally as a useful buffer zone to prevent the trafficking of drugs from Afghanistan and then block the flow of funds to the nature of Islamic extremists.
Nazarbayev has also built a good balance with both Putin that with Obama than with other Western leaders, for this still win him the election with the overwhelming percentage between 95 and 98%.
The country looks like this Expo 2017 scheduled in Astana with a reaffirmed political stability and increased foreign interests in the energy field. The economic crisis and the Russian embargo, have in fact damaged the Kazakh GDP also the newly formed Eurasian Union does not seem to have given significant margins of growth, the program of the outgoing president is so heavily focused on economic recovery and governability.
The presidential candidates are 22, and too many unnecessary for this type of election, are men owl, of these only two presented by the parties in Parliament, Nazarbayev and for the Communist Party Turgun Syzdykov. The percentages that will collect the opponents of the outgoing president will be ridiculous, between 0.1 and 1.5%, opening the doors to the sixth consecutive term of Nazarbayev.
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