Monday, April 4, 2011

Kazakhstan, the election farce

The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev will be held today (Monday, editor's note) the presidential elections in Kazakhstan, which owns the nation's 3 percent of global oil reserves, the first global producer of uranium. The result is obvious: win Nursultan Nazarbayev, 70, in power since 1989.

In February, while the Tunisian people's revolution spread to Egypt, the Asian leader has announced plans to bring forward by one year the election. Has anyone tried to protest, because of the 22 candidates, the electoral commission has accepted only three, all considered pro-government.

Result? Several arrests, increasing Internet censorship, editorial director of the only opposition newspaper missing for nine days. The West did not flinch: too much business at stake, especially for Italy. There's Eni, which operates in the fields of Kashagan and Karachaganak, there are manufacturers such as Impregilo and Salini, chosen to build a new road to China, there's Unicredit, looking for a buyer for the unfortunate local activities.

Probably this is Silvio Berlusconi, recently turned so Nazarbayev: "I've seen surveys done by an independent authority that we have assigned 92% of esteem and love of your people. It is a consensus that can not be based on facts. "

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