The election in Kazakhstan would be the first since autocrat Nursultan Nazarbayev said he was stepping down from the role he had held since the fall of the Soviet Union
ALMATY, Kazkahstan—Kazakhstan’s interim president called a snap election Tuesday in an attempt to quell uncertainty weeks after the autocrat ruler who governed the country since the fall of the Soviet Union stepped down.
The decision to call the election for June 9 had been discussed with the country’s former leaderNursultan Nazarbayev, as well as the Central Asian country’s top political leaders, the interim leader of Central Asia’s biggest energy exporter said.
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