Only Otan
| Нұр Отан Only Otan |
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|---|---|
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| Party leader | Nursultan Nazarbayev |
| Deputy Chairman | Bauyrshan Baibek |
| founding | March 1, 1999 |
| Headquarters | Nur-Sultan |
| Youth organization | Shas Otan |
| Alignment | Authoritarianism , centrism |
| Colours) | blue |
| Parliament seats |
84/98 |
| Number of members | approx. 900,000 (as of 2013) |
| Website | nurotan.kz |
The Nur Otan ( Kazakh Нұр Отан "Radiant Fatherland" or "Light of the Fatherland"; Russian Нур Отан ) is the largest party in Kazakhstan with around 900,000 members.
The chairman is Nursultan Nazarbayev . Since the party is closely linked to the state apparatus, provides the president and currently has 83 out of 107 seats in the lower house , it is also considered a unity party . It is based in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan .
At the international level, Nur Otan works with the Russian ruling party United Russia .
history
The party was officially registered as Otan on February 12, 1999 . It emerged from a number of parties that announced their dissolution. In 2006 the Assar party merged with the Otan. In December of the same year, two more parties, the Peasant Party with 102,000 members and the Citizens' Party with 160,000 members, the Otan joined, and the name of the party was changed to Nur Otan .
elections
In the parliamentary elections in August 2007 she won 88 percent of the vote and, since none of the opposition parties was able to overcome the seven percent hurdle, all 98 parliamentary seats. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said the election did not meet international standards, especially in terms of counting votes and implementing new legislation. The opposition parties did not recognize the result and spoke of massive manipulation. The party reacted calmly to the criticism. Bakyzhan Shumagulov , the party's deputy chairman, said of the manipulation allegations: There is hardly anything less of interest to me.
Nur Otan won 80.99% of the vote in the parliamentary elections in January 2012 . For the first time in over eight years, representatives of opposition parties moved into the Kazakh parliament, including the Ak Schol Democratic Party with eight and the Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan with seven. Nevertheless, the Nur Otan party has 83 of 107 seats in parliament and was thus able to rule alone. The OSCE criticized the fact that the parliamentary elections had not met democratic standards, although they were well organized. The opposition once again condemned the elections as fraudulent and announced protests.
| Parliamentary election results | ||||
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| choice | Surname | Number of votes | Share of votes | Seats |
| 1999 | Otan | 1,622,895 | 30.89% |
23/77 |
| 2004 | 2,883,706 | 60.61% |
42/77 |
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| 2007 | Only Otan | 5,247,720 | 88.40% |
98/98 |
| 2012 | 5,621,436 | 80.99% |
83/98 |
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| 2016 | 6,183,757 | 82.20% |
84/98 |
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Web links
- Party website (Russian, Kazakh, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Otan Congress Defines Party's Mission only. Astana Times, accessed April 29, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/election/kazakhstan/bbk101219.html
- ↑ sz-online.de, Intrige in Kazakh , June 15, 2007
- ↑ www.rferl.com, Kazakhstan: Ruling Party Gets Even Bigger , December 22, 2006
- ↑ tagesschau.de, Elections in Kazakhstan - Presidential Party in the future alone in Parliament , Aug. 19, 2007 ( Memento from December 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Reuters AG, election in Kazakhstan: All seats for Nazarbayev party , Aug. 19, 2007 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ ZEIT ONLINE, election observation: OSCE criticizes elections in Kazakhstan as undemocratic , January 16, 2012
