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...MPRP ministers in Elbegdorj’s 17-member cabinet walked out last week, and the country’s parliament, known as the Grand Hural, voted last Friday to dissolve the government...
Marxism is dead. Communists are history. Right? Not in Mongolia, as it turns out. The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, which ruled the country for decades in lockstep with Moscow, won 70 of the 76 seats in the parliament, the Great People's Hural. Though 43% of the votes went to noncommunist candidates, a coalition of the three main opposition parties managed to take only four seats, since each contest was decided by simple majority...
...People's Revolutionary Party took advantage of superior organization and finances to rout the fledgling opposition. Of 799 candidates who survived the first round of voting, virtually all but 101 were Communists. The winners will compete this week in a runoff for 430 seats on the People's Great Hural, the national parliament...
...about half the total of 174, have offered to resign in anticipation of an extraordinary party congress scheduled for next month that will select a new President. Both Batmonh and Prime Minister Dumaagiyn Sodnom, 56, have reportedly volunteered to quit their government posts when the People's Great Hural, Mongolia's parliament, next convenes. The government has also agreed to include the opposition in a commission that is to draft a new constitution...
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