{"id":4387,"date":"2016-06-17T17:09:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T00:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2016-06-27T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T02:00:27","slug":"wrestler-singers-judo-relatives-in-2016-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2016\/wrestler-singers-judo-relatives-in-2016-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Constellations of Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are always some interesting individuals, opposing races, and categories of candidates to be found among a number of candidates as large as 498 in this election.<\/p>\n<h2>Wrestlers<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbat_erdene\" target=\"_blank\">Bat-Erdene B<\/a> (incumbent, MPP, Khentii, 40)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SumiyabazarD\" target=\"_blank\">Sumiyabazar D<\/a> (incumbent, MPP, Songinokhairkhan 73)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sukhbat_A\" target=\"_blank\">Sukhbat A<\/a> (MPP, Tuv, 29)<\/p>\n<p>Asashoryu (former Sumo Grand Champion) not a candidate himself, but clearly supporting the DP (unlike his brother, Sumiyabazar who is running as an incumbent for the MPP)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ja\">\u653f\u6cbb\u5bb6\u30dd\u30a4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KPdHIibupr\">pic.twitter.com\/KPdHIibupr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julian Dierkes (@jdierkes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdierkes\/status\/747605856867409921\">June 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Judo<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NTuvshinbayar\" target=\"_blank\">Tuvshinbayar N<\/a> (DP, Bayankhongor, 8), winner of a gold medal in Beijing and silver medal in London Olympics. Obviously he&#8217;s running for the DP in Bayankhongor where &#8220;Genco&#8221; Battulga is politically prominent, who is also chairman of the Judo Federation.<\/p>\n<h2>Singers<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Nara&#8221; Narantuya M (Independent, Bayangol 69)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ErkaEsui\" target=\"_blank\">Erdenetungalag G<\/a> (DP, Selenge, 26)<\/p>\n<p>Javkhlan S (Independent, Bayanzurkh 54)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\nYes, it&#8217;s Javkhlan, the crooner! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8lzzK8jpaK\">pic.twitter.com\/8lzzK8jpaK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julian Dierkes (@jdierkes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdierkes\/status\/747607685453881344\">June 28, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Relatives<\/h2>\n<p>There are a number of relatives of various relations in races, sometimes even facing each other.<\/p>\n<p>Byambatsogt S (incumbent, MPP, Khovd, 35) and\u00a0Batsogt D (DP, Khovd, 35)\u00a0are married to sisters, making them &#8220;Schwippschwager&#8221; to each other\u00a0 (brother of your wife&#8217;s sister, in German, is there an English term?)<\/p>\n<p>Batsambuu Sh (MPP, Zavkhan, 18) and Saikhansambuu Sh (Independent &amp; Great Coalition, Zavkhan, 18) are brothers running against each other.<\/p>\n<p>Arvin D (DP, Bayanzurkh, 54) and Anujin P (MPP, Bayanzurkh, 54) are not blood relatives but related by marriages. Anujin is famous for\u00a0her TV show &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mongoltulgatan.mn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mongol tulgatan 100 erhem<\/a>&#8221; (100 Respected People of Mongolia). Arvin was a member of parliament for the MPP before switching to the DP after the 2012 election.<\/p>\n<h2>Thanks<\/h2>\n<p>UBC&#8217;s geology grad student <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/G_Enkhgerel\" target=\"_blank\">Enkhgerel G<\/a> pointed out a number of these candidates to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are always some interesting individuals, opposing races, and categories of candidates to be found among a number of candidates as large as 498 in this election. Wrestlers Bat-Erdene B (incumbent, MPP, Khentii, 40) Sumiyabazar D (incumbent, MPP, Songinokhairkhan 73) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2016\/wrestler-singers-judo-relatives-in-2016-election\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[983080],"tags":[983090],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ikh-khural-2016","tag-julian-dierkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4454,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}