Ulaanbaatar
Presidential election candidates to be announced by May 17
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The General Election Commission called a press conference on Monday, February 13, to announce that the commission has approved a Plan of actions and schedule for organizing the presidential election to be held on June 26.
The Mongolian National Audit Office is to finalize the designations of the maximum costs of electoral constituencies and for each candidate to run election campaign by February 26.
Selection of candidates to run for president will take place around the beginning of May and the selected candidates will be announced to the public before May 17.
As of today, there are 2,056,000 registered citizens of voting age on national level. However the number is subject to change until the actual election day.
The polling will take place for the Mongolian citizens abroad on June 10-11 at the diplomatic missions of Mongolia to respective countries.
