In Kazakhstan, a candidate who failed a language exam was removed from presidential elections
The Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan refused to nominate public figure Zhumatai Aliyev as a presidential candidate, who could not pass the exam on proficiency in the state Kazakh language, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The Kazakh publication Tengrinews reported this on May 2. “On May 2, 2019, a meeting of the linguistic commission was held at the Central Election Commission to establish Zhumatai Aliyev’s fluency in the state language. According to the results…