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more from robin forrester walker. talk us through why the election was called early. it was supposed to be next year, wasn't it. >> yes, we think that this went ahead for a number of factors. the economy has not been doing too well. oil is down. the russian rouble having a marked effect on the neighbouring economies like kazakhstan. run fired product flooding the market making it difficult for the manufacturers for kazakh manufacturers to compete. i think as you look at this a lot of kazakh people look at it there's a number of things lining up, and reforms that were accepted in terms of the economy and the political situation. the president wants to potentially move the country towards something resembling a parliamentary democracy. we'll see if that will happen. if you look a little closer you might notice that kazakhstan has a large border and a lot of russians here in kazakhstan. when the russian - pro-russian rebel offensive took place in ukraine, the kazakhs were worried about this and pride themselves on having a comfortable relationship between the different c