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Friday, 09 September 2005

NAZARBAYEV NOMINATED FOR KAZAKHSTAN PRESIDENCY

Published in News Digest

By empty (9/9/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Kazakhstan\'s pro-presidential party Otan (Fatherland) voted unanimously at its special congress in Almaty on Friday to nominate incumbent President Nursultan Nazarbayev to run for re-election, an Interfax correspondent reported. \"The half-a-million \"army\" of Otan and - I can say confidently - all Kazakh citizens support your decision to run in the presidential elections,\" party acting chairman Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov told the congress, which was attended by Nazarbayev himself. Zhumagulov said he is confident that there is no alternative to the country\'s incumbent president.
Kazakhstan\'s pro-presidential party Otan (Fatherland) voted unanimously at its special congress in Almaty on Friday to nominate incumbent President Nursultan Nazarbayev to run for re-election, an Interfax correspondent reported. \"The half-a-million \"army\" of Otan and - I can say confidently - all Kazakh citizens support your decision to run in the presidential elections,\" party acting chairman Bakhytzhan Zhumagulov told the congress, which was attended by Nazarbayev himself. Zhumagulov said he is confident that there is no alternative to the country\'s incumbent president. \"The state will be able to continue to prosper only under the leadership of Nursultan Nazarbayev,\" he said. (Interfax)
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