Excerpt from report by the Kazakh news agency
Interfax-Kazakhstan on 27th September

Almaty, 27th September. The Republican People's Party of
Kazakhstan (RPPK) has decided to boycott the forthcoming
elections to the parliament's Majlis [lower house] on party
lists on 10th October, the party's Almaty office told
Interfax-Kazakhstan agency on Monday [27th September].
The leadership of the party refused to comment on this
decision saying that a special news conference would be devoted
to this on Tuesday [28th September, presumably].
Nurbulat Masanov, a political scientists, was on top of
the RPPK's party list of five people.

[passage to end omitted: on how the RPPK's congress
decided to boycott the elections late in August when the
Central Electoral Commission decided not to register its
leader, former prime minister, Akezhan Kazhegeldin]

Source: Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency, Almaty, in Russian
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