ALMATY, Sept 20: Kazakhstan's information minister, the only member of the government allied to the opposition, tendered his resignation on Monday in protest at what he said was a rigged election.
"The elections were not fair, honest or free," Information Minister Altynbek Sarsenbaiuly said in a statement. "I do not consider it possible to remain part of a government... that actively interfered in the electoral process and participated in fraud." -Reuters
