Alex Chen

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An older woman prepares to vote in the Mongolian parliamentary elections at a polling station in Mongolia's Tuv province on June 28. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

MundoAsia

After its peaceful revolution in 1990, Mongolia earned its place on the map as an electoral democracy. Nestled between Russia and China, the country has become renowned for its system of free and fair elections—an outlier compared with other post-communist countries in the region.

From 1924 to 1990, the Mongolian People’s Republic was a one-party state under the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) as well as a satellite state of the Soviet Union. Before that, Mongolian territory was largely governed as a theocratic monarchy under the Bogd Khan, the Mongolian equivalent of the Dalai Lama, and controlled by the Qing empire that also ruled China.…  Seguir leyendo »