Sunday\'s presidential election in Kazakhstan failed to meet international democratic standards, Europe\'s main poll-monitoring body the OSCE has said. Failings included ballot box stuffing, intimidation of the opposition, and media bias, the OSCE said. It said its 460 monitors had noted some improvements from previous elections, but flaws \"limited the possibility for a meaningful competition\". President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in power since 1989, won 91% of the vote. \"Regrettably, despite some efforts which were undertaken to improve the process, the authorities did not exhibit sufficient political will to hold a genuinely good election,\" said Bruce George, co-ordinator for observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. In a strongly-worded statement, the OSCE said: \"The voting was generally calm and peaceful, but the process deteriorated during the count, which was viewed as bad or very bad in one out of four counts observed. \"Unauthorised persons interfering in polling stations, cases of multiple voting, ballot box stuffing and pressure on students to vote were observed during voting and during the count, observers saw tampering with result protocols and a wide range of procedural violations,\" it said. Main opposition candidate Zharmakhan Tuyakbai, who secured just 6.64% of the vote according to official results, alleged there had been \"multiple violations\". \"We will take all legal measures to protest the official results of the voting and will press for this election to be declared invalid,\" Mr Tuyakbai said on Monday. \"The authoritarian regime of Nazarbayev is taking a totalitarian turn,\" he said. But President Nazarbayev insisted that the results demonstrated the population\'s craving for the status quo. \"We\'re talking not about revolutions but evolutions,\" he told reporters. \"Kazakhstan voted for calmness and stability.\" (BBC)