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Four Candidates To Run In Kazakh Presidential Election

March 02, 2011

Kazakhstan's Central Election Commission has announced that it has officially registered four candidates to run in the April 3 presidential election.

Incumbent Nursultan Nazarbaev, Zhambyl Akhmetbekov of the Communist People's Party, Gani Kasymov of the Patriots' Party, and independent candidate and environmentalist Mels Eleusizov have until April 1 to campaign.

Twenty-two people originally announced their intention to run: 11 failed the mandatory language proficiency test and the other seven were unable to meet other registration requirements.

compiled from agency reports

Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/four_to_run_for_kazakh_president/2326288.html

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