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On
27 June 2004, some one million voters went to the polls in Mongolia to elect 76
members of the Great State Hural, Mongolia's parliament. It was the fourth
election held in Mongolia under the 1992 constitution. In the previous
election, the former communist MPRP won a landslide, ousting the government of
former democracy activists. Under the MPRP, Mongolia's economy performed extraordinary
well. Surprisingly, the ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP)
lost its two-thirds majority and half its parliamentarians in the 2004
election. But the Motherland Democracy Coalition (MDC), a coalition of Mongolia's
most influential opposition parties, fell short of achieving a majority of its
own. After the election, a grand coalition government was formed, paving the
way for profound legal, social, and economic reforms.
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