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Mongolia goes to the polls on Wednesday to choose its sixth democratically-elected president, with the ruling Mongolian People's Party (MPP) on the cusp of consolidating its power following a low-key campaign crimped by COVID-19 curbs.
It snatches the presidency from a bickering opposition | Asia
It snatches the presidency from a bickering opposition | Asia
ITH THE yak-tail banners, or tug, of state authority behind him, Khaltmaagiin Battulga read out his presidential decree outlawing the Mongolian People’s Party ( MPP). Banning political parties is the stuff of tin-pot dictatorships. Yet Mongolia, which broke from the Soviet Union’s orbit in a peaceful revolution in 1990, had until now been notably democratic. And the MPP is not just any party, but Mongolia’s oldest, the social-democratic successor to the Marxist-Leninist machine that ruled under Soviet tutelage. Last month it celebrated its centenary. Mr Battulga’s move on April 18th...