Kazakh Interim President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev secures veteran leader Nursultan Nazarbayev's backing ahead of June 9 presidential election
Kazakhstan's Interim President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev during a meeting with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in, in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, April 22, 2019.
Nazarbayev, 78, shocked the oil-rich nation in March by calling time on his three-decade presidency and allowing loyalist Jomart-Kassym Tokayev to succeed him, initially on an interim basis. He is also the lifelong chair of the powerful security council and is constitutionally designated as the country's 'Elbasy', or 'Leader of the Nation.'
But Kazakhstan's regime faces a simmering protest mood as it prepares for what is likely to be an uncompetitive vote in an authoritarian democracy marked by deep inequalities. The banner they unfurled at the government-run race read, "You cannot run away from the truth. I have a choice." Photographs of the banner were widely shared on social media.
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