By empty (9/21/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Representatives of Kazakhstan\'s pro-government Otan (Fatherland) party will have no less than 60% of the seats in Majilis, the lower house of parliament, said a party official. \"In total, we hope to win no less than 60% of the seats in the parliamentary elections by party lists and in single-mandate districts,\" Otan\'s vice chairman Amangeldy Yermegiyayev told a news conference in Astana. Otan was established in 1999, and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is its ideological leader.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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