I'm going to give you the light answer, because time and the chairman are staring me in the face.
The dominant political party in Mongolia is the Mongolian people's revolutionary party, which is the former Communist Party. Fifteen years ago, they renounced their communist heritage. They apologized for 70 years of communist rule. In fact, the top item on the agenda at the MPRP congress next month is to change the name, to make it into the Mongolian people's party and drop “revolutionary”.
Mongolia has had free and open presidential elections and parliamentary elections since 1992. The presidency of Mongolia has switched back and forth between the democratic party and then to the MPRP, and then back to the democratic party, peacefully and without very much rancour. In terms of parliament, in the election of 1996, the democrats won. In the election of 2000, the MPRP won. In 2004, MPRP won, but it was so tight that they made a coalition government, and that was the first coalition government that you're referring to. In 2008, the MPRP won a solid majority.
However, there was a very uncharacteristic seven-hour civil disturbance in Ulan Bator. The then MPRP prime minister made what most observers thought was a sensitive and good, intuitive judgment. There was a lot of unhappiness in the country about the way things were going, about lack of transparency, and other things. He voluntarily, even though he had a solid majority and did not need the support of any other party to govern, invited the next largest party, the democratic party, into a coalition. MPRP has 60% of the cabinet seats and the independent agencies; the democratic party has 40%.
Now, some Mongolian critics have said that the problem of the two largest parties, which together have 74 out of 76 seats in parliament, essentially means there's no opposition. The next parliamentary elections are in 2012, and the expectation is that the coalition will get a divorce sometime in 2011.