Azerbaijan, Baku / Тrend corr A. Gasymova / The Kazakhstan opposition National Social Democratic Party (NSDP) applied to court protesting garbling in the parliamentary elections held in Kazakhstan on 18 August, the leader of the party, Oraz Zhandosov, reported from Almaty on 20 August.
"The results of the elections were false. The NSSP collected no less than 20% of the votes, and the Central Election Commission (CEC) won 25% of the votes," he said.
As a result of the elections, the pro-presidential Nur Otan Party won with 88.8% votes. No other party passed the 7% barrier.
According to Zhandosov, the protocols of the divisional election committees received by the supervisors after calculation of the votes will be the main proof in the court.
According to CEC, the National Social Democratic Party collected 4.62%, the Ak Zhol party 3.27%, the Auil party 1.58%, the People's Communist Party of Kazakhstan 1.31%, the Patriots' Party of Kazakhstan 0.75% and the Rukhaniyat Party - 0.41%.
Attendance at the elections made up 64.56%. There are 10,000 election stations in Kazakhstan. 8.8% of the 15.4mln population have voting rights.
Complaints of violations made during the election campaign were made to the CEC even prior the election day. The total number of complaints received by CEC is 262, including 18 submitted on election day, reported the Chairman of the Kazakhstan CEC, Kuandyk Turgankulov, said at a press after the elections. All complaints are being investigated, he said. International elections supervisorsof various organisations held different opinions.
OSCE believes the parliamentary elections do not correspond to international standards for lack of transparency in vote calculations, as well as the barrier to enter the parliament being too high.
Commenting on the results of the elections, the head of OSCE long-term supervisor mission to Kazakhstan, Lubomir Kopay, stated that the one-party system proves lack of democracy in the country.
However, the Chairman of CIS Executive Committee, Vladimir Rushaylo, who was heading the CIS supervisor mission, stated that the elections corresponded to democratic standards of the organization of elections and to the election legislation of Kazakhstan.
He recognized that several shortcomings and violations had been revealed during the elections. For instance, the voters at Election Stations 2 and 3 in Astana were polled after elections by students and pupils who did not have the required professional skills.
OSCE concluded the elections in Kazakhstan did not correspond to several of theinternational standards.
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