Kazakh leader apologises for 97.7% re-election victory

April 28, 2015 01:42

Kazakhstan's long-serving President Nursultan Nazarbayev apologised on Monday for winning re-election with 97.7 per cent of the vote, saying it would have 'looked undemocratic' for him to intervene to make his victory more modest.

Sunday's election gives another five year term to the 74-year-old former steelworker, who has ruled the oil-producing nation since rising to the post of its Soviet-era Communist Party boss in 1989.

Central Election Commission data showed turnout was 95.22 per cent.

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