{"id":4681,"date":"2020-06-25T13:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T05:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2020-06-25T13:10:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T05:10:43","slug":"mongolias-ruling-party-wins-landslide-victory-in-parliamentary-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=4681","title":{"rendered":"Mongolia&#8217;s ruling party wins landslide victory in parliamentary elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ULAN BATOR, June 25&#8211; The ruling Mongolian People&#8217;s Party (MPP) won a landslide victory in the regular parliamentary elections on Wednesday, reported Xinhua news agency based on the preliminary results from Mongolia&#8217;s General Election Commission (GEC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Preliminary voting results showed the MPP took 62 seats out of 76 in the parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0-1024x566.jpg\" alt=\"party\" class=\"wp-image-4682\" width=\"437\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0-1024x566.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0-768x424.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0-181x100.jpg 181w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0-350x193.jpg 350w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0-800x442.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0.jpg 1073w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two coalitions, Right Person Electorate Coalition and Your and Our Coalition, won one seat each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Mongolian Prime Minister Norov Altankhuyag, who ran for the parliamentary elections as an independent candidate, got one seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The opposition Democratic Party won the remaining seats, according to the preliminary results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voter turnout in the parliamentary elections reached 73.64 per cent, which was 1.54 percentage points higher than the 72.1 per cent of the 2016 general elections, according to the GEC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I would like to thank all the voters who actively cast their votes. The official results of the parliamentary elections will be announced within Thursday,&#8221; said Choizon Sodnomtseren, chairman of the commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mongolia&#8217;s State Great Khural, or parliament, is unicameral and consists of 76 lawmakers, whose term lasts four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/world\/news.php?id=1854281\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ULAN BATOR, June 25&#8211; The ruling Mongolian People&#8217;s Party (MPP) won a landslide victory in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0.jpg",1073,593,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0-300x166.jpg",300,166,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0-768x424.jpg",640,353,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0-1024x566.jpg",640,354,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0.jpg",1073,593,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0.jpg",1073,593,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0.jpg",1073,593,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0.jpg",1024,566,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/0823972905ef0369915e993daf361b3f5ef41dbb885e0.jpg",720,398,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=15\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=59\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4683,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions\/4683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}