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| | Polity IV Country Report 2003: Mongolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | However, in June 1996 the Democratic Coalition, (a union of liberal parties led by the Mongolian National Democratic Party and the Mongolian Social Democratic Party) stunned both domestic and international observers by capturing 50 of 76 seats in the Great Hural, thus forcing the MPRP out of power for this first time since 1921. |
 | | However, in May 1997 the MPRP showed its political resilience when its candidate, Natsagiyn Bagabandi, defeated the incumbent, Pusalmaagiyn Ochirbat, in presidential elections that were deemed free and fair by international observers. |
 | | The July 2000 parliamentary elections (in which the MPRP won 72 out of 76 seats) and the May 2001 presidential election (won by the incumbent, President Bagabandi), were also deemed free and fair. |
| www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Mon1.htm (721 words) |
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