Nur Otan party wins all seats In Kazakhstan

Nur Otan party received 88 percent of Saturday's vote in General
election in Kazakhstan  , and no other party cleared the 7 percent barrier needed to
win a seat in the legislature, according to preliminary results
released Sunday by the Central Elections Commission.

The two largest opposition groups condemned the results, saying they had been manipulated.

Nazarbayev, who has ruled the oil-rich Central Asian country since 1989
when it was still a Soviet republic, had pledged the elections would be
free and fair.Parliamentary elections were held  in Kazakhstanon saturdayand exit polls showed  Nazarbayev Nur Qtan Party were the winners.

The region became an autonomous republic of the USSR in 1920 and was a
constituent republic from 1936 to 1991, when it gained its
independence. Astana is the capital and Almaty the largest city.

A country of west-central Asia south of Russia and northeast of the Caspian Sea is the richest in oil reserves in its region.