Kazakhstan is preparing to effectively ban political opposition

Kazakhstan

"In a country where there's only one ruling party that belongs to the incumbent president and other parties support him there can be no alternative."

"Political opposition never got much of a look in in authoritarian Kazakhstan, where the same man has been in power for over a quarter of a century, but a draft law being considered by the country's rubber stamp parliament is set to make matters even more predictable.

The legislature is presently working on a bill that would ban independent candidates from running for the presidency. The bill approved by the majilis (lower chamber of the parliament) on May 24 is designed to eliminate “non-serious candidates”, according to Justice Minister Marat Beketaev."


Global voices (full text):
https://globalvoices.org/2017/05/30/kazakhstan-is-preparing-to-effectively-ban-political-opposition/