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What Kazakhstan’s Final Kurultai Debate Revealed About Party Competition

By Ayana Birbayeva on 20 August 2026

ALMATY – The final Aug. 19 televised debate before Kazakhstan’s Aug. 23 Kurultai elections showed that the country’s seven political parties are entering the vote with competing policy priorities. Still, voters largely share an understanding of the main concerns, shifting the campaign debate from identifying problems to competing over...