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Ulaanbaatar – 29 June 2024
1. Wide of representatives of Mongolian People’s Party arriving for presser
2. SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai, Mongolian Prime Minister
"According to the preliminary results, Mongolian People’s Party gained 68 to 70 seats in the parliament meaning we have won the election. Rather than a victory of the party, this victory is of the Mongolian people. This is the systemic reform or ideological reform allowing voice of the people to be heard in the parliament. It will go down as a very important page in our history."
3. Wide of Oyun-Erdene speaking
4. SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai, Mongolian Prime Minister:
"I would like to thank the people who didn’t vote for us. Having diverse and contrasting opinions is the essence of democracy. Your criticisms will be reflected in our actions."
5. Wide of representatives of Mongolian People’s Party leaving presser
6. Wide of representatives of Democratic Party arriving for presser
7. Wide of media
8. SOUNDBITE (Mongolian) Gantumur Luvsannyam, Chairman of Mongolian Democratic Party:
"We will work to fulfill the dream of our 430-thousand supporters who wanted to build a corruption-free society. We will work hard to increase the employment rate. This election has shown that the Mongolians are living a poor life. Through this election, people gave their evaluation on the past policy mistakes of the ruling party."
9. Wide of Gantumur and other party members leaving presser
STORYLINE:
The ruling party won Mongolia’s parliamentary election but by only a slim margin as the opposition made major gains, early results indicated Saturday.
Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai announced early on Saturday that the Mongolia People’s Party won 68 to 70 seats in the 126-seat body, based on preliminary results, "meaning we have won the election."
Although the official results haven’t been announced, that has less to do with the certainty of the ruling Mongolian People’s Party’s victory and more to do with the difficulties of gathering results from far-flung corners of the nation.
These results are a setback from Luvsannamsrai and his party. They had won 62 of the-then 76 seats in the parliament in 2020. This time, in a parliament expanded to 162 seats — 50 more than in the previous election in 2020 — they are much less dominant.
Luvsannamsrai thanked even those who didn’t vote for his party, saying that for the first time five to six parties had been elected to the parliament was a "new page" in Mongolian democracy.
"Having diverse and contrasting opinions is the essence of democracy. Your criticisms will be reflected in our actions," he said.
With 99% of the vote counted, tallies by Mongolian media indicate the opposition Democratic Party won about 40 seats — a big jump from 2020. The results indicate that opposition parties have been able to capitalize on voter discontent and eat into the ruling party’s majority,
"Through this election, people gave their evaluation on the past policy mistakes of the ruling party," said Democratic Party leader Gantumur Luvsannyam.
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