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Monday, 26 July 2004
ASAR CONFIDENT OF WINNING MAJORITY IN NEW KAZAKH PARLIAMENT
By empty (7/26/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Darigha Nazarbaeva, the head of the pro-presidential Asar party and the daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, told journalists in Astana on 26 July that her party plans to win up to 50 percent of the seats in parliament in 19 September elections. Nazarbaeva, who expressed a similar statement earlier in the year, said, \"We do not want to lower this target and we will actively work to this end.\" The Central Electoral Commission registered Asar\'s 13-person party slate earlier on 26 July.
Darigha Nazarbaeva, the head of the pro-presidential Asar party and the daughter of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, told journalists in Astana on 26 July that her party plans to win up to 50 percent of the seats in parliament in 19 September elections. Nazarbaeva, who expressed a similar statement earlier in the year, said, \"We do not want to lower this target and we will actively work to this end.\" The Central Electoral Commission registered Asar\'s 13-person party slate earlier on 26 July. (Interfax-Kazakhstan)