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Kazakhstan elects new leader, as hundreds arrested in protests

The day was marked by the biggest protests the Muslim-majority country has seen in three years. [AFP]

Kazakhstan on Sunday elected the hand-picked successor of former president Nursultan Nazarbayev with 70 percent of the vote, exit polls showed, as police arrested hundreds of opposition protesters.

The victory of career diplomat Kassym Jomart-Tokayev was never in doubt after he received the blessing of powerful Nazarbayev, who had led the Central Asian nation for the last three decades.

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