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Election Day! Mongolians in ‘deels’ cast their votes

Today (24 June), Mongolians are voting in the parliamentary election. Polling stations opened at 7.00 a.m. local time and voting is underway across the country; doors will close at 10.00 p.m. Many Mongolians, mostly young people wearing traditional deels (pronounced

Mongolians set to vote in 8th parliamentary election

Tomorrow (24 June) is Election Day. Mongolians will participate in the country’s eighth parliamentary election since 1992. A total of 606 candidates from 15 parties, four coalitions and independents are set to compete for 76 seats in the Mongolian parliament

More candidates imprisoned ahead of Mongolian parliamentary election

Earlier today (18 June), a Mongolian court decided to detain three more candidates in next week’s parliamentary election. The trial of former PM S.Bayar and other six people started at the Ulaanbaatar’s Chingeltei, Sukhbaatar and Bayanzurkh Criminal Court this morning

Former Prime Minister J.Erdenebat imprisoned amidst protests

Former Mongolian Prime Minister J.Erdenebat was imprisoned today (16 June) after failed to pay the hefty MNT 10 billion bail issued by the Sukhbaatar District Court of Ulaanbaatar. His trail has been postponed until 22 June, two days before election.

Mongolia’s ruling party tops donation league

On Monday (15 June), the National Audit Office reported the conclusions of the donations’ statements submitted by political parties for the period from January and May, 2020. According to our sources, only eight parties out of 27 have presented their

Mongolian Democratic Party calls for release of imprisoned candidate

Earlier today (11 June), Democratic Party of Mongolia released a statement demanding the release of imprisoned election candidate N.Nomtoibayar. The statement noted that the imprisonment of N.Nomtoibayar – who has different opinions to those of Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh – is

2.1 million Mongolians to vote in parliamentary election

The State Registration Authority has registered a total of 2.1 million eligible voters for the upcoming parliamentary election to be held on June 24. Mongolia’s eligible voting population can be divided by age to 324,000 people aged between 18 and