Media Monitoring Report on the 2008 Parliamentarian Elections published

Globe International, a Mongolian NGO completed the six-month project titled “Increasing Voter Knowledge Trough Journalism Training and Improved Reporting”. The project was supported by Open Society Forum, Mongolia, the Embassy of the Great Britain and North Ireland in Ulaanbaatar and Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. 

Mongolia, which is going through a transitional process to democracy since the end of communism in the mid-1990s, held  Ulsyn Ikh Khural (Parliament ) elections on 29 June 2008.

In total, 356 candidates; 311 represented 12 political parties and one coalition (Civic Coalition of Mongolian Green Party, Mongolian Social Democratic Party and Party of Civil Movements) and 45 independent candidates contested for the 76 seats in the Ulsyn Ikh Khural.
The monitoring had taken place over four periods, 02- 07 June (the first monitoring period), 08-14 June (the second monitoring period), 15-21 June (the third monitoring period) and   22-27 June (4th monitoring period), which were the official campaigning period in accordance with the Law on the Elections of UIKH.

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