{"id":125716,"date":"2022-11-22T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T07:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=125716"},"modified":"2022-11-22T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T07:30:25","slug":"kassym-jomart-tokayev-of-kazakhstan-re-elected-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/kassym-jomart-tokayev-of-kazakhstan-re-elected-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan Re-elected as President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan Re-elected as President:<\/strong> Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev secured a second term in Sunday’s snap election, winning 81.31% of the vote, the central Asian nation’s Central Election Commission said on Monday, citing preliminary data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More About This:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tokayev had been widely expected to extend his rule over the oil-rich nation by seven more years with a strong mandate to continue his increasingly independent foreign policy, as the former Soviet republic navigates the Russia-Ukraine crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tokayev faced no real opposition candidates in a nation where critics are sidelined and all five of his competitors were virtually unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tokayev\u2019s Performance:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the support of his predecessor, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Tokayev won his first election in 2019, but this year, amid violent turmoil in the 20 million-person country, the two fell out. Present vote consolidated his power as an independent leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In less than a year, Tokayev suppressed the worst anti-government demonstrations in his country\u2019s history, neutralized his all-powerful predecessor, and stood up to Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voter turnout was 69.4 percent, with five other candidates scoring in the low single digits, data showed. Voters\u2019 second most popular choice was \u201cagainst everyone\u201d with 5.8 percent of ballots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worst handling of The Crisis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For two-and-a-half years, Tokayev \u2013 a steady hand known for lacking charisma \u2013 played the role of a loyal successor. That changed in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protests broke out across the vast country that turned into violent unrest and centred on Kazakhstan\u2019s economic centre, Almaty. When he instructed police to “shoot to kill” protesters, Tokayev showed a ruthless side. He also cut off communication with the outside world and called on Moscow to send troops to help. The deployment of Moscow-led \u201cpeacekeeping\u201d forces suppressed the uprising, which some observers believed might have brought about Tokayev\u2019s fall. The chaos ended with 238 dead in nine days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Main Concern:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has reawakened Kazakh concerns that Moscow may have ambitions on the north of the country, home to about three million ethnic Russians.  Kazakhstan and Russia share a 7,500 km long (about 4,660 miles) border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan Re-elected as President: Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev secured a second term in Sunday’s snap election, winning 81.31% of the vote, the central Asian nation’s Central Election Commission said on Monday, citing preliminary data. November 2022 Current Affairs Quiz More About This: Tokayev had been widely expected to extend his rule over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":125717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4982],"tags":[4933],"class_list":["post-125716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2022","tag-appointments-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125718,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125716\/revisions\/125718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}