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Kurultai Vote Raises Stakes for Parties, Parliament and Foreign Policy, Experts Say

By Assel Satubaldina on 25 August 2026

ASTANA – Kazakhstan’s first election to the new Kurultai is reshaping more than the country’s parliamentary architecture, said experts at an Aug. 24 meeting in Astana organized by the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies (KazISS). They pointed to voter turnout, a bigger role for political parties and growing geopolitical...