Mongolian Great Khural

…a new unicameral legislature, the Mongolian Great Khural (MGK), the members of which are elected for four-year terms. The constitution also provides for a directly elected president, who is head of state and who, on the advice of the majority party leader in the MGK, nominates the prime minister, who…

…of a new single-chamber 76-seat Mongolian Great Khural (MGK), whose chairman (speaker) would rank second to the president but ahead of the prime minister, who would be head of government. The president, who was to be head of state, would be directly elected to a four-year term. The constitution also…

…first election for the new MGK, in June 1992, the MPRP achieved another large majority, with 60 percent of the vote and 71 seats, while the democratic parties, with 40 percent of the vote, received only 5 seats. One year later the first presidential election was won by Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat,…

…vote of confidence in the MGK in July 1999, the DA nominated fellow legislator Rinchinnyamyn Amarjargal to the post of prime minister. However, the Constitutional Commission had upheld a motion that MGK members could not serve concurrently as government ministers, and President Bagabandi would not support Amarjargal’s nomination before the…

In the June 2008 MGK election, the preliminary results gave the MPRP a majority of seats, but opponents of this outcome gathered into a mob in Ulaanbaatar and burned down the MPRP headquarters. Five people were killed and hundreds injured during the violence, and the president imposed a state…