{"id":45197,"date":"2022-06-06T14:46:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T05:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/06\/kazakhstan-vote-nazarbayev-privileges-referendum-constitution"},"modified":"2022-06-06T14:46:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T05:46:24","slug":"kazakhs-vote-to-strip-founding-figure-nazarbayev-of-privileges-in-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45197","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhs vote to strip founding figure Nazarbayev of privileges in referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary results show 77% of voters backed constitutional changes after January protests in which more than 230 people died<\/p>\n<p>Kazakhs have overwhelmingly voted for constitutional changes in a referendum after deadly unrest ended founding leader Nursultan Nazarbayev\u2019s three-decade grip on Central Asia\u2019s richest country, the election commission says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe referendum can be considered validated,\u201d electoral commission chair Nurlan Abdirov said on Monday, citing preliminary results that 77% of voters had backed the move.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/06\/kazakhstan-vote-nazarbayev-privileges-referendum-constitution\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary results show 77% of voters backed constitutional changes after January protests in which more than 230 people diedKazakhs have overwhelmingly voted for constitutional changes in a referendum after deadly unrest ended founding leader Nursult&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[262,2244,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kazakhstan","category-nursultan-nazarbayev","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45198,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45197\/revisions\/45198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}