Presidential polls begin in Mongolia

Ulan Bator June 26 (IANS) Mongolians started voting for a new president on Monday a media report said.

There are nearly two million voters in the country which has a population of around three million.

The polls mainly involve candidates from three leading parties who have offered different measures to ease the government s mounting debt pressure if elected to office Xinhua news agency reported.

Voting began at 7 a.m. and would continue till 10 p.m.

Miyegombyn Enkhbold of the ruling Mongolian People s Party and Battulga Khaltmaa of the opposition Democratic Party are considered the main contenders.

The new president would inherit a $5.5 billion International Monetary Fund-led bail-out aimed to stabilise the country s economy.

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