Less than a month before the Mongolian general election, one of the candidates has found himself behind bars pending trial – two days after next month’s election. Earlier today (28 May), the young candidate N.Nomtoibayar was sent to the 461st

The pandemic is playing havoc with elections worldwide. Because of Covid-19, Britain, France, North Macedonia and Serbia have already postponed ballots of various sorts. However, Mongolia will follow South Korea’s example of casting votes amid the pandemic. By successfully holding

Mongolia’s controversial former president, N.Enkhbayar, will not be allowed to stand in the parliamentary election next month because of registration irregularities and his conviction for corruption in 2012, the election commission said. N.Enkhbayar applied to register as ‘Your and Our

The trial of former PM S.Bayar and other six people started at the Ulaanbaatar’s Chingeltei Criminal Court today (25 May) at 09.00 a.m. However, the trial was postponed practically as soon as it began because of a sharp deterioration in

Amid a fairly successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mongolia is holding its parliamentary election on June 24 on its usual four-year cycle. Equally cyclical is yet another revision of the electoral system, this time reverting to the 2008 system

A record number of 698 candidates from parties and unions as well a record number of independents have registered by online to participate in the Mongolia’s 2020 parliamentary election, which is due to take place in just over a month’s

B.Makhbal, a former head of the State Administration and Management Department at the Ministry of Road and transportation development has been sentenced today (15 May) to 13 years in a top security prison for murder. Earlier today, the Sukhbaatar District

Earlier today (14 May), Director of National Emergency Commission, U.Enkhtuvshin ordered three Governors from eastern Mongolian provinces not to attend ruling party congress. They were ordered to stay ‘on station’ in order to take the any action required and preventative