Kazakhstan holds snap election one year after deadly unrest.
Kazakhstan is holding a snap election on Sunday, the first since deadly unrest a year ago. The election comes after a wave of violence in January 2022 when provincial protests initially sparked by a fuel price hike engulfed other cities, notably the commercial capital, Almaty, and became overtly political as demonstrators shouted “Old man out!” in reference to former President Nursultan Nazarbayev. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev initiated reforms to strengthen the parliament, reduce presidential powers and limit the presidency to a single seven-year term. More than 400 candidates, most of them self-nominated, are competing in the single-mandate races, and the national elections commission authorized two additional parties to enter the proportional contest.