A total of 71.12% of Kazakh citizens who voted in the nationwide referendum supported plans to build a nuclear power plant (NPP) in Kazakhstan, head of the Central Elections Commission (CEC) Nurlan Abdirov said.
"The number of citizens who gave a positive answer to the referendum's question totaled 5,561,937, or 71.12%," Abdirov said, summing up the referendum results.
Meanwhile, 2,045,271, or 26.15% of the total number of Kazakh citizens who voted in the referendum, were against the NPP construction.
A nationwide referendum on whether to build a nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan took place on October 6.
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