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By Nazrin Gadimova

Kazakhstan's Central Election Commission registered 7,018 people as mayoral candidates (akim) for cities of regional importance, rural districts, towns and villages which are not included in rural districts, as of registration deadline on July 24, the Kazakh CEC reported.

In total 7,173 people were nominated as the candidates for the elections.

Following the nomination procedure 46 candidates withdrew their candidatures.

Moreover, the regional election commissions refused to register 55 nominated candidates, who failed to meet requirements envisaged in the law on gubernatorial elections.

After the procedures ended, 51 registered candidates dropped out. Some 15 of them withdrew their candidature by their own, while the candidatures of 36 people were removed by regional election commissions as these candidates provided untrue information about their income and property.

All the registered candidates have the right to start the election campaign.

Mayoral elections in Kazakhstan are held at the meeting of elector MPs of the corresponding region's Maslikhat (local representative body). Meetings of the electors will be held in the electoral regions of Kazakhstan on August 5-9, 2013.

In Kazakhstan, an akim (mayor) is the head of an akimat, a municipal, district, or provincial government (mayorat), and serves as the presidential representative.