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In an op-ed piece published last week in The Washington Post, Nazarbayev argued that economic prosperity should come before democracy, and declared his country an excellent example of how this could be accomplished. Tonino Picula, who led a short-term OSCE mission, took issue with that reasoning. "Kazakhstan should be proud of its economic growth, but this election is a sign that unfortunately democratic institutions have not grown at the same pace," Picula said. Attention now turns to parliamentary elections scheduled for 2012, but which many believe may be pushed ahead to this year. Only one party, Nazarbayev's Nur Otan, is now represented in parliament. Everts said the conduct of the presidential vote demonstrated the urgency of implementing long-awaited reforms ahead of the parliamentary elections.
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