Kazakhstan's Parliament approved a referendum that would extend the rule of President Nursultan Nazarbayev until 2020. More than half of Kazakhstan's nine million registered votes signed a petition in support of the referendum, leading one member of Parliament to declare that "[t]he will of our people is law." The proposed referendum would avert potential challenges to President Nazabayev in elections scheduled for 2012 and 2017.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/15/world/asia/15-briefs-Kazakhstan.html?ref=world
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