Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08ULAANBAATAR170
2008-04-21 08:29:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Ulaanbaatar
Cable title:
PREPARATIONS PROCEEDING FOR MONGOLIAN PARLIAMENTARY
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UNCLAS ULAANBAATAR 000170
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EAP/CM AND DRL
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI MG
SUBJECT: PREPARATIONS PROCEEDING FOR MONGOLIAN PARLIAMENTARY
ELECTIONS
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION
UNCLAS ULAANBAATAR 000170
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EAP/CM AND DRL
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI MG
SUBJECT: PREPARATIONS PROCEEDING FOR MONGOLIAN PARLIAMENTARY
ELECTIONS
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION
1. (SBU) Mongolia's General Election Commission (GEC) indicated on
April 21 that its preparations for the June 29 Parliamentary
elections are coming along smoothly, and announced that registered
voters can now look up their registration information at the
Commission's website. Post confirmed that the promised information
is available, although voters can only view their own registration
information, not anyone else's. (Political parties will be given
special passwords with which to navigate the website and obtain, for
instance, regional information on registered voters.) In a one-hour
meeting at Commission headquarters, GEC Chairman Battulga and
Secretary General Bayarsaikhan welcomed a statement by Econ/Pol
SIPDIS
Chief that the Embassy is forming a team to monitor the upcoming
elections. Battulga and Bayarsaikhan, whose memberships in the
ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and the opposition
Democratic Party, respectively, were suspended when they joined the
GEC, indicated that the Commission will not limit the number of U.S.
Embassy election monitors. They also expressed a desire to visit
the United States later this year to witness and learn from the U.S.
presidential election. In the upcoming Parliamentary elections, all
76 seats will be contested. The country is divided into 26
electoral districts. Twenty of the country's 21 provinces have
their own district; two sparsely populated provinces, Dornogovi and
Govisumber, share a single electoral district. The capital,
Ulaanbaatar, has six electoral districts.
GOLDBECK
SIPDIS
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
STATE FOR EAP/CM AND DRL
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI MG
SUBJECT: PREPARATIONS PROCEEDING FOR MONGOLIAN PARLIAMENTARY
ELECTIONS
SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION
1. (SBU) Mongolia's General Election Commission (GEC) indicated on
April 21 that its preparations for the June 29 Parliamentary
elections are coming along smoothly, and announced that registered
voters can now look up their registration information at the
Commission's website. Post confirmed that the promised information
is available, although voters can only view their own registration
information, not anyone else's. (Political parties will be given
special passwords with which to navigate the website and obtain, for
instance, regional information on registered voters.) In a one-hour
meeting at Commission headquarters, GEC Chairman Battulga and
Secretary General Bayarsaikhan welcomed a statement by Econ/Pol
SIPDIS
Chief that the Embassy is forming a team to monitor the upcoming
elections. Battulga and Bayarsaikhan, whose memberships in the
ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and the opposition
Democratic Party, respectively, were suspended when they joined the
GEC, indicated that the Commission will not limit the number of U.S.
Embassy election monitors. They also expressed a desire to visit
the United States later this year to witness and learn from the U.S.
presidential election. In the upcoming Parliamentary elections, all
76 seats will be contested. The country is divided into 26
electoral districts. Twenty of the country's 21 provinces have
their own district; two sparsely populated provinces, Dornogovi and
Govisumber, share a single electoral district. The capital,
Ulaanbaatar, has six electoral districts.
GOLDBECK