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The coalition later became the foundation of the current Democratic Party of Mongolia. In the 1996 Mongolian legislative elections, the Democratic Union was victorious, defeating the ex-communist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party. [2] This was for the first time from 1921 that the People's Revolutionary Party had not been in power.
According to the Political Party Act (2005), a political party is considered as a union of Mongolian citizens who have consolidated voluntarily with the purpose of organising social, personal and political activities as stated in the Constitution of Mongolia.
On 6 December 2000, five political parties – including the Mongolian National Democratic Party, Mongolian Social Democratic Party and others merged and established the Democratic Party of Mongolia. On 1 April 2006, a party convention elected Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj as the party leader. Four candidates ran for the elections and in the first round.
Elbegdorj worked as the Leader of the Mongolian Democratic Union in 1989–1997. [48] In a documentary film about the President (titled: "Man of the People") released in the year of the 25th-anniversary celebrations of the Mongolian democratic changes, President Elbegdorj tells the story of the historical political change and reinventing democracy.
Mongolian politics is currently dominated by two major political parties: Mongolian People's Party (160,000 members) and Democratic Party (150,000 members). [46] After the 1990 Democratic Revolution, then- Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party transitioned into a centre-left social democratic party.
The party won 35 seats as a member of the Democratic Union Coalition in the 1996 election. [1] It represented conservative and liberal positions. [2] The party continued under this name until 1999 when it dissolved itself after becoming a co-founder of the Democratic Party (in Mongolian Ардчилсан нам or Ardchilsan Nam).
In 1989 the Mongolian People's Republic witnessed a series of demonstrations against the government by the coalition group the Mongolian Democratic Union, a group formed on December 10 of that year by intellectuals under the influence of similar movements in Eastern Europe. [3]
The party was part of the Mongolian Democratic Union that ruled from 1996 to 2000. It merged with the Democratic Party in 2000, thus all of the Social Democratic Party became members of the Democratic Party except A.Ganbaatar. It reformed in 2004 [1] and ran 19 candidates, [1] but did not win any seats at the 2012 Mongolian parliamentary elections.