Kazakh leader apologizes for 97.7 percent re-election victory
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Source: [url]http://www.todayonline.com/world/kazakh-veteran-leader-re-elected-landslide-election-commission[/url]
[quote][B]Kazakhstan's long-serving President Nursultan Nazarbayev apologized on Monday for winning re-election with 97.7 percent of the vote, saying it would have "looked undemocratic" for him to intervene to make his victory more modest.[/B]
Sunday's election gives another five year term to the 74-year-old former steelworker, who has ruled the oil-producing nation since rising to the post of its Soviet-era Communist Party boss in 1989. Central Election Commission data showed [B]turnout was 95.22 percent[/B].
Television showed a triumphant Nazarbayev walking on a red carpet, smiling and shaking hands and greeting thousands of jubilant supporters at what officials called "The Victors' Forum" held in a spacious stadium in the capital Astana.
"Kazakhstan has shown its political culture to the entire world," he told his supporters.
At a later news conference, he said of the poll results: "I apologize that for super-democratic states such figures are unacceptable. But I could do nothing. If I had interfered, I would have looked undemocratic, right?"
Nazarbayev is lionized by compliant state media and is officially titled "Leader of the Nation". He is permitted by law to run as often as he wishes. [B]Most of his vocal opponents have either been jailed or fled abroad.[/B][/quote]
What a hypocrite. He claims "democracy" yet he jails critics like a dictator.
"sorry I didn't artificially deflate the numbers, whoops!"
almost as funny yet just as scary as the referendum results in Crimea last year
Is he fucking humblebragging
there just might be something going on behind the scenes
just might
[QUOTE=Limed00d;47701175]there just might be something going on behind the scenes
just might[/QUOTE]
Yeah I am pretty sure he actually got 120% and then skewed the results to look less suspicious.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;47701317]Yeah I am pretty sure he actually got 120% and then skewed the results to look less suspicious.[/QUOTE]
Ahh pulling a putin, but with actual attempts to hide it.
Wow I thought he was actually apologizing for fucking with the votes and coming clean but no.
[quote]I apologize that for super-democratic states such figures are unacceptable. But I could do nothing. If I had interfered, I would have looked undemocratic, right?"[/quote]
What a fucking ass.
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