Mongolian Legislative Election, 2008
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Parliamentary elections were held in Mongolia on 29 June 2008. A total of 356 candidates ran for the 76 seats in the State Great Khural. According to official results published on 14 July, at least 39 seats were won by the ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP), and at least 25 seats by the main opposition party, the Democrats (DP). Ten seats remained subject to possible recounts. After intermediate results published on 30 June showed a clear MPRP victory, DP chairman Elbegdorj declared on 1 July that the elections were rigged and that his party would not accept the results. Protests against the election results turned violent on the evening of 1 July, and protesters sacked the MPRP headquarters in downtown Ulan Bator. Five protesters were killed, and around midnight a four-day state of emergency was declared. Read more about Mongolian Legislative Election, 2008: Electoral System, Campaign, Results Famous quotes containing the word legislative:“However much we may differ in the choice of the measures which should guide the administration of the government, there can be but little doubt in the minds of those who are really friendly to the republican features of our system that one of its most important securities consists in the separation of the legislative and executive powers at the same time that each is acknowledged to be supreme, in the will of the people constitutionally expressed.” |