In midst of an economic downturn caused by low oil prices and devaluation of the tenge, Nazarbayev for the last time ran again in the 2015 presidential election for the fifth term. From there, he gathered 97.7% of the vote share, making it the largest in Kazakhstan's history. In his victory speech, he empathized the top priority in Nurly Zhol stimulus package that was designed in softening the social blow caused by an economic troubles. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe criticized the election as falling short of international democratic standards.