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Tokayev wins Kazakh presidential vote with 70.6%: electoral commission
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan, June 10, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Kazakhstan elected the
hand-picked successor of former president Nursultan Nazarbayev with over 70
percent of the vote, electoral authorities said on Monday after a vote day
marred by protests.
Kazakhstan’s Central Election Commission said that Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
received 70.6 percent of the vote and his nearest challenger, opposition
candidate Amirzhan Kosanov, 16.2 percent.
BSS/AFP/MSY/1243 hrs