Vagharshak Hakobyan: Voter turnout is high

Vagharshak Hakobyan, representative of the Standing Commission on Socioeconomic and Legal Issues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee on Regional Affairs and Eurasian Integration of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, head of the Parliamentary Friendship Group between Armenia and Kazakhstan, coordinator of CSTO PA observers at the early election of the President of Kazakhstan, said that voter turnout is high. “We have been working in Kazakhstan in all campaign offices for two days. This morning our CSTO observation group has already started to inspect the polling stations, and we want to note the high turnout. By 10 a.m., all the polling stations we visited had about 10% voter turnout.”
According to data from the CEC of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the turnout at 12:00 a.m. was 38%.
Vagharshak Hakobyan stressed that today’s election is an important turning point for the people of Kazakhstan. In his opinion, after the election the people of the republic will feel stronger and more confident.
“We are following all events very closely. I think that after this election the people of Kazakhstan will become stronger and come out of these processes faster. Already now we can say that the election will be more democratic.”
As you may recall, in accordance with the decision of Vyacheslav Volodin, Chairman of the CSTO PA Council, Chairman of the State Duma of the federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, and at the invitation of Mukhtar Tleuberdi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, on September 24, 2022, the CSTO PA has formed a group of international observers to monitor the preparation and voting at the early election of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Vagharshak Hakobyan, member of the CSTO PA Standing Commission on Socioeconomic and Legal Issues, deputy Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on Regional Issues and Eurasian Integration, was appointed as the coordinator of the CSTO PA observers.
The group consists of representatives of supreme legislative bodies of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Member States: the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tajikistan.