Election Law Change to Break Single-Party Monopoly on Kazakh Parliament. IFES.
Lawmakers in Kazakhstan have approved changes to the country's electoral law that would guarantee that at least two political parties are represented in the country's parliament. Currently, the electoral law requires parties to obtain at least 7 percent of the vote in order to be allocated parliamentary seats. But the new legislation would allocate parliamentary seats to the party that wins the second largest proportion of votes, even if it failed to pass the 7 percent threshold. In the 2007 parliamentary elections, the pro-government Nur Otan party won all seats in the legislature's lower chamber, validating critics who charged President Nursultan NAZARBAYEV of stamping out all political opposition. The changes to the electoral law are designed to blunt such criticism and bolster Kazakhstan's democratic credentials in the future.
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