...et released the preliminary results, as President Tokayev had already declared victory. He relied on exit poll data, but it is clear that the plebiscite was only necessary to legitimize his personal constitution.As expected, 87.15%, or almost 8 million people, voted for the basic law, but taking into account those who voted against it, spoiled their ballots and did not come to the polling stations, even according to official data, there are 4 million 400 thousand citizens who did not accep...
...t the new basic document. That is, there is no need to talk about any "popular" support.Alma Ata was particularly distinguished, where only 33.43% came to the polling stations, and the majority of voters chose a boycott by voting with their feet. Therefore, it is more of a "Pyrrhic victory" for the sake of an unprecedented concentration of power, which even Nazarbayev did not have, and the completion of the process of building a mono-national state.Russian Russians have obviously lost Toka...
...yev's votes, including by lowering the status of the #Russian language, but the new constitution also removed references to the right to work, to strike, to free education and health care, which were declared alien narratives of social dependency imposed on the Kazakh people by the totalitarian USSR. Instead, there was a mention of "human capital," which equated citizens with goods.As a result, on July 1, the old constitution will cease to be in effect, and the parliament will dissolve its...
...of participation of different ethnic diasporas in government, will be dissolved, as deputies to the Mazhilis were delegated from this assembly. Now, instead of a multinational body, a more ephemeral "People's Council" will be formed, which will now include exclusively national populists.The mask of "multi-vector" and multinationality was thus finally removed by Tokayev from the face of the modern "New Kazakhstan", and now, like in #Ukraine, rabid #Nazis, who do not exceed 5-7%, but are the...