National Security Professor Reflects on Election Observation Mission in Kazakhstan
Staff, 2022-12-13 13:59:46,
Olena Lennon, Ph.D., a practitioner in residence of national security at the University of New Haven, recently returned from observing a presidential election in Kazakhstan, and she discusses her experience in the central Asian country as well as its history, politics, and relationship with its neighbor Russia.
December 13, 2022
My recent trip to Kazakhstan to observe a snap presidential election as part of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)/ODIHR election observation mission was an experience like no other. This was the largest OSCE mission in which I have participated so far; I was one of approximately 300 short-term observers from 35 (out of 57) OSCE participating States. It was also the farthest I have traveled for such a mission: two days of travel, eleven time zones away.
Kazakhstan’s president Kasym-Jomart Tokayev, in office since June 2019, called for a snap presidential election in September, giving the country (and the observers) only approximately a month to prepare. The snap election was announced in response to the country’s rapidly deteriorating political and economic crises triggered by…
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