60 OSCE PA deputies to monitor Kazakh elections

60 members of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly will monitor presidential elections in Kazakhstan. Head of Croatia's delegation to the PA Tonino Picula made it public during his meeting with Kazakh Senate speaker Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev, Kaztag reported.

Picula will head the mission of OSCE PA to observe the upcoming presidential election in Kazakhstan that is due to pass on April 3.

Tokayev in his turn informed the head of the mission about the election process in Kazakhstan and stressed that Kazakhstan will make every effort to ensure that the forthcoming elections will be free and fair.

As for February 24, Kazakhstan's Central Electoral Commission confirmed applications from twelve presidential candidates complied with the Constitution and the law on elections.

Actual President Nursultan Nazarbayev is among them, and he is the only one registered officially for the early presidential elections. Altogether the CEC got applications from 22 candidates.

Official registration will be over on March 2. To be registered all aspirants have to present the signatures lists and to transfer to the Election Commission around 800,000 tenge (about $5,000). The election campaign is due to start on March 3 to be over on April 1, two days before the voting.