Re: M-TH: Fwd: Mongolian CP wins in a Landslide
At 10:34 05/07/00 -0400, you wrote: Communists reclaim power in Mongolia vote Landslide victory could limit freedoms, analysts say By Jeremy Page, Reuters, 7/4/2000 ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Mongolia's former communist rulers have been swept back to power in a landslide election victory, state media said yesterday, crushing the forces that helped usher in democracy a decade ago. State radio said the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, or MPRP, had won 72 of 76 seats up for grabs in Sunday's election to Parliament, or Great Hural. That is a fine victory in a country that will be seen in the west as quite peripheral to the global capitalist economy. Presumably the population also feel secure that Russia and China, may provide some insulation against its worst effects. The report is written in such a fashion as to imply it may be the end of "democracy" once again. But that bias should be questioned. Presumably the MPRP should be able to win future elections even in a more diversified economy, without having to restrict basic democratic rights. Who owns the media, might be a crucial question. Chris Burford London --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: M-TH: Fwd: Mongolian CP wins in a Landslide
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/05/00 03:04PM At 10:34 05/07/00 -0400, you wrote: Communists reclaim power in Mongolia vote Landslide victory could limit freedoms, analysts say By Jeremy Page, Reuters, 7/4/2000 ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - Mongolia's former communist rulers have been swept back to power in a landslide election victory, state media said yesterday, crushing the forces that helped usher in democracy a decade ago. State radio said the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, or MPRP, had won 72 of 76 seats up for grabs in Sunday's election to Parliament, or Great Hural. That is a fine victory in a country that will be seen in the west as quite peripheral to the global capitalist economy. Presumably the population also feel secure that Russia and China, may provide some insulation against its worst effects. The report is written in such a fashion as to imply it may be the end of "democracy" once again. But that bias should be questioned. )) CB: I agree the article is written in the form of anti-communist propaganda. Presumably the MPRP should be able to win future elections even in a more diversified economy, without having to restrict basic democratic rights. Who owns the media, might be a crucial question. Chris Burford London --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
