Excerpt from report by the Kazakh news agency
Interfax-Kazakhstan on 6th September

Astana, 6th September: At a routine meeting held on Monday [6th
September] in Astana, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC)
registered a list of candidates from the Agrarian Party of
Kazakhstan (APK) to stand for the Majlis (lower house) of
parliament.

The chairman of the party and advisor to the prime
minister of Kazakhstan, Romin Madinov, is on top of the party
list of seven candidates for seats in parliament from the APK.
The press secretary of the Agrarian Party, Nurlan
Makhmudov, told the Interfax-Kazakhstan agency that the
Agrarian Party comes out in a single election bloc with the
alliance of women's organizations of Kazakhstan. The bloc has
nominated to the Majlis 10 representatives from single-seat
constituences.

APK was set up on 6th January 1999 and has more than
30,000 members in its ranks.
The chairwoman of the Central Electoral Commission, Zagipa
Baliyeva, told journalists after the meeting that the party
lists of eight out of ten political parties, which expressed
the wish to take part in elections to the Majlis according to
party lists, had been registered as of today.

Baliyeva said the CEC had received a telegram from the
leader of the Alash party, Soverkazhy Akatayev, asking the
commission not to accept documents from members of the party
without his signature. The point is, the CEC chairwoman
explained, the Alash party had presented "four different party
lists" for registration.

Baliyeva also said that by a decision of the bureau of the
Republican People's Party of Kazakhstan (RPPK), editor-in-chief
of the `XXI Vek' newspaper Bigeldy Gabdullin had been struck
off the RPPK party list, as he had been registered a candidate
for a seat in parliament for a single-seat constituency in
Almaty Region.

[passage omitted: the participation in the elections of
leader of workers' movement Madel Ismailov and former prime
minister, leader of RPPK Akezhan Kazhegeldin is called in
question]

Source: Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency, Almaty, in Russian
1023 gmt 06 Sep 99
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