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Democracy is gaining rapidly on the world, and Kazakhstan is a part of it. The Kazakhstani president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, made an unprecedented decision that demonstrates the true values of the democracy that Kazakhstan aspires to be.
The newly formed Kazakhstan democracy was a very popular idea to the locals. Early this year, a citizens group scheduled a referendum to allow the president to remain in office for ten more years, for a total of fifteen years. It would have caused two succeeding elections to be unnecessary, saving the independent state big money.
Instead, Nazarbayev vetoed the referendum and called for the election to go on a year early, moving it up from the 2012 date. He announced that the people should decide how long he stays in office, like in a true democracy. Nazarbayev won with a landslide of 95.5% of the vote.
