Kazakhstan president apologies after winning polls with 97.7% vote share

Ever won by a margin so huge that you feel embarrassed and in need to apologise? [caption id=“attachment_2217172” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who was re-elected, gestures during a post-election rally in Astana April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Mukhtar Kholdorbekov[/caption] Something similar happened with Nursultan Nazarbayev, who won the elections for Kazakhstan’s presidential position with an overwhelming 97.7 percent vote share with a voter turnout of 95.22 percent, reports The Independent . “I apologise that for super-democratic states such figures are unacceptable. But I could do nothing. If I had interfered, I would have looked undemocratic, right?” he said in a statement on Monday. Nazarbayev, 74, has led the country ever since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. But international monitors have criticised his victory on the grounds of lack of a credible opposition. Opposition politicians have been prosecuted and free media shut down under his rule seemingly never-ending rule since 1989,  reports The Telegraph . Although, Presidents of Russia and China have been quick to congratulate Nazarbayev. Kazakhstan remains stable in the region, especially compared to neighboring Kyrgyzstan, which is plagued by ethnic violence, and is a huge energy-rich state, the largest economy in the former Soviet Union after Russia.