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> The people of Kazakhstan can achieve the same outcome. Highly unlikely. From Wikipedia: In April 2015, Nazarbayev was re-elected with almost 98% of the vote
by codeshaman 11y ago
> The people of Kazakhstan can achieve the same outcome.
Highly unlikely.
From Wikipedia: In April 2015, Nazarbayev was re-elected with almost 98% of the vote.
That kind of tells the whole story - people are "behind" this (or rather no-one dares contradict the authorities). That country is basically owned by the Family and resistance is pretty much futile.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- Drdrdrq 11y agoIn other words: it doesn't matter who is voting, what matters is who is counting the votes.
- usrusr 11y agoGiven the highly volatile ethnic mix of Kazakhstan and the lurking destabilizing effect of foreign interests longing for abundant mineral resources, a strong majority for stability over freedom is hardly surprising. Nonetheless, 98% seems very much out of this world. But with the "right" mix of fearmongering and early divide-and-conquer intervention when a moderate opposition ist starting to organize? Certainly not unthinkable. There's so much more to a healthy democracy than not miscounting the votes.
- AnAfrican 11y agoI don't know why you're downvoted. I agree a hundred percent. People from stable democracies tends to underestimate how afraid people can be of chaos and how easy it is for some goverment to associate democracy with chaos. When a moderate opposition starts to organize, a non-moderate one (or one that takes advantage of ethnic fault lines) does too.
- dave2000 11y agoUh...that's not what I read into a 98% election result!
- emergentcypher 11y agoYou aren't the least bit suspicious about a 98% election result?