Nursultan Nazarbayev President forever of Kazakhstan

Isn't Representative Democracy a wonderful idea as it allows for the citizens elect their leaders through a secret ballot. Like many countries Kazakhstan is masquerading as a place where the electoral process actually determines who those elected leaders will be.
Nursultan Nazarbayev has been President since 1990 when Kazakhstan gained independence from the former Soviet Union on Friday the Kazakh parliament voted overwhelmingly for him to remain president until 2020 bypassing two elections.

Kazakhstan’s parliament, in which every elected seat is held by the ruling Nur Otan party, passed legislation proclaiming Mr Nazarbayev “first president and leader of the nation.”
The laws grant him the right to intervene in policy after he retires – a little like Lee Kuan Yew, who served as “minister mentor” after he retired as Singapore’s prime minister, having served from 1959 to 1990.
Kazakhstan’s parliament also enhanced Mr Nazarbayev’s immunity from prosecution, and protected his family’s properties.
Rozakul Khalmudarov, a senior Kazakh politician, also said the laws make it an offence to damage statues of Mr Nazarbayev, or to “distort facts in the biography of the leader of the nation.”

"Over the past decade, Nazarbayev has developed into an autocrat," says Amirzhan Kosanov, a former deputy minister for youth and sport under Nazarbayev, who now serves as the general secretary of the social democratic Azat ("Freedom") Party. "He appoints the prime minister, the administrative heads of all the regions, judges right down to the district level and the election commission, and he leads the ruling Nur-Otan ("Light of the Fatherland") party, the only one represented in parliament. He clamps down on independent newspapers and has chased potentially threatening rivals out of the country." Corruption is horrendous, he adds, the gap between rich and poor has grown unbearable.