ELECTIONS. People wearing face masks vote at a polling station in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia on June 24, 2020. Photo by Byambasuren Byamba-Ochir/AFPon Wednesday, June 24, wearing gloves and masks as part of coronavirus safety measures in a mineral-rich landlocked country with an economy hurt badly by the epidemic.
The ruling Mongolian People's Party of Prime Minister Khurelsukh Ukhnaa, which holds 65 of parliament's 76 seats, hopes to hold its massive majority. "These elected decision-makers must improve our life. We have to do something for the development of our country," she told Agence France-Presse after voting in Ulaanbaatar.About 8,000 Mongolians are currently stranded abroad and protests inside the country calling for their return have been broken up by authorities on the grounds that they break social distancing rules."I thought the election should be delayed," argued another voter, 39-year-old Enkhtsetseg Bandi.
A number of corruption scandals have erupted in recent years and there is growing anxiety about graft in the young democracy, which ended decades as a Soviet satellite in 1990.
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