ASTANA/ALMATY, Kazakhstan, SPA -- Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's party won every available seat in a new parliament, results showed on Sunday, in an election that further tightened his grip over the Central Asian state, Reuters reported. Six other parties in Saturday's poll all failed to reach a 7 percent hurdle required to enter the lower house, the Mazhilis, including the main opposition All-National Social Democratic Party (ANSDP) which received 4.62 percent of the vote. "Kazakhstan has taken a real step towards democracy," the presenter on state-controlled Khabar Television said after a live broadcast of the preliminary results. Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were due to give their verdict on the poll later on Sunday.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/475997
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