ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Voters in the relatively young democracy of Mongolia were electing a new parliament on Friday in their landlocked country squeezed between China and Russia, two much larger authoritarian states.
At stake were 126 seats in an expanded parliament, 50 more than in the previous election in 2020. That contest was won by the Mongolian People’s Party in a landslide. The governing party still appears to hold the upper hand, but other parties may be able to capitalize on voter discontent to eat into its majority.
About two dozen voters lined up on a staircase heading down to a polling station in the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar early Friday
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