DEBATES

No Point in Election Debates

No Point in Election Debates

Director of the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law Evgeniy Zhovtis does not see a point in debating over the presidential elections scheduled for June 9, 2019. The procedure, in his opinion, has nothing to do with the expression of the citizens’ free will...

The CEC Will “Rule” the Elections

The CEC Will “Rule” the Elections

It is not the law but the Central Electoral Commission that determines the entire procedure of holding off-year elections in Kazakhstan, believes human right activist Evgeniy Zhovtis. In his opinion, the authorities have hedged their bets by introducing, in the recent years, the amendments to the Kazakh law that have become their “know-how”...