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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Presidential polls begin in Mongolia
