{"id":2534,"date":"2010-11-03T18:16:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viktorkhrapunov.com\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2021-08-13T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T17:02:57","slug":"presidential-elections-in-kazakhstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viktorkhrapunov.com\/en\/presidential-elections-in-kazakhstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidential \u201cElections\u201d in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But can this properly be termed an election? President Noursoultan Nazarba\u00efev, in power since 1989, is running for a new presidential term and probably expects a score similar to that achieved in 2005, when he scored 91% of votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>A turnout of about nine million is expected.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2005 campaign, Zamanbek Nurkadilov, the principal opposition candidate was found dead with three gunshot wounds a little before election day. The subsequent judicial enquiry ruled the cause of death was suicide\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But can this properly be termed an election? President Noursoultan Nazarba\u00efev, in power since 1989, is running for a new presidential term and probably expects a score similar<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[102,103,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viktorkhrapunov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viktorkhrapunov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viktorkhrapunov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viktorkhrapunov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viktorkhrapunov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.viktorkhrapunov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/www.viktorkhrapunov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viktorkhrapunov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viktorkhrapunov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viktorkhrapunov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viktorkhrapunov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}