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Mongolia announces official election results MPRP with 39 seats, Democrats win 25, ten in recount PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 15 July 2008

The official results of the June 29 election were announced Monday with the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) winning a clear majority with 39 of the 76 seats in the Great Hural, the country’s parliament. 

The Democratic Party won 25 seats, two seats went to smaller parties and ten remain disputed and are involved in recounts. The Civil Will Party's S. Oyun has remained her seat in Parliament and the media personality Altai successfully ran as an independent candidate.

In the immediate aftermath of the vote, riots took place in Ulaanbaatar as claims of vote fraud were raised. Five people died during the unrest and a state of emergency was declared prior to order returning to Mongolia’s capital city. 

"We have introduced 66 seats to the president and we have told him there are three constituencies in dispute for which we have no final result," Mongolia election commission chief Batgulga told Mongolia Web News. The three constituencies are Khentii, Dornod and the Ulaanbaatar Bayangol district. 

As officials sort out the winners in the remaining ten seats, Mongolian law allows the parliament to meet with three-quarters of the seats filled.

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 1 Written by INTJay, on 2008-07-16 17:14:05, IP: 12.1.83.2
So what was the deal on the burning of the government building? Or did I miss the story.
 2 Written by froit, on 2008-07-18 21:00:08, IP: 202.179.26.29
That was not the governement building that burnt, but the party-office, of the leading MPRP-party. 
Plus a lot of collateral damage, to art gallery and national ballet building and such. 
With the MPRP-building also dissapeared a lot of possible evidence of wrong-doings in the Socialist past, and more recent. 
Plus, a nice stretch of prime real-estate is open for re-development...
 3 Written by victor boyd, on 2008-07-24 20:41:54, IP: 99.234.140.114
we are planning a trip to mongolia mid august..is it now safe??? 
 
vic
 4 Written by mongoliaweb, on 2008-07-26 03:53:02, IP: 122.215.66.104
very safe!

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