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The last coalition government in Mongolia was one led by the Democratic Party from 2012 to 2016. After eight years of one-party rule, this year's election showed a desire among voters to return to ...
Mongolia's governing party won parliamentary elections Friday but by only a slim margin as the opposition made major gains, according to tallies by the party and news media based on near-complete ...
The politics of Mongolia takes place in a framework of a parliamentary system with a multi-party representative democracy. [1] While some sources have incorrectly described Mongolia as a semi-presidential system , its 1992 Constitution clearly defines it as a parliamentary republic.
In 2022, massive protests broke out in Mongolia over alleged corruption in the mining sector. The election. After six decades of communist rule, protests sparked a transition to democracy in 1990. Overblown hopes that democracy would bring prosperity and solve all the country's ills yielded to reality.
In the 2020 parliamentary elections the Mongolian People's Party won a supermajority of 62 of the 76 seats and formed a government. However, protests in 2021 led to the resignation of Prime Minister Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh and his cabinet. [5] More protests began in December 2022 due to a government corruption scheme in relation to coal exports ...
On Jan. 17, Mongolia’s first uranium mine, Zuuvch-Ovoo, was finally green-lighted with the signing of a $1.6 billion joint investment agreement between its government and French majority state ...
After the elections, two major parties (Democratic Party of Mongolia and Mongolian People's Party) formed a coalition government. Within the government, party leader Norovyn Altankhuyag became First Deputy Prime Minister and the party keeps the seats of Finance Minister, Health Minister, Minister of Environment and Tourism, Minister of Roads ...
As a democracy of just 3.4 million people in the shadow of two much larger authoritarian states, China and Russia, it has taken on symbolic importance in an era when democracy is under pressure or ...