ULAANBAATAR, June 25 — Mongolia's ruling party won a landslide election victory to retain an overwhelming majority in parliament — a reward from voters who approved of its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to near-complete results today. The Mongolian People's Party of Prime...
A man wearing a face mask has his body temperature checked as he arrives to vote at a polling station in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia on June 24, 2020. — AFP pic
The MPP will have 63 of 76 seats in the legislature, two fewer than before but still a huge majority to rule the landlocked country of three million people squeezed between Russia and China. “Voters did obviously reward the handling of the corona crisis by the Mongolian government and put their trust in the leadership of Prime Minister Khurelsukh,” Niels Hegewisch, country director of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, a German non-profit foundation, told AFP.
The pandemic has not helped, with cafes, restaurants and pubs ailing as the government imposed early closing times as part of coronavirus measures. Schools have been closed since January. Despite calls by some for the election to be delayed due to the pandemic, three-quarters of two million eligible voters cast their ballots.
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