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Khaltmaagiin Battulga (Mongolian: Халтмаагийн Баттулга [χaɬtʰˈmaːɟiɴ ˈpat̚tʰʊɬq]), also referred to as Battulga Khaltmaa (/ ˈ b æ t ʊ l ɡ ə k æ l t ˈ m ɑː /; born 3 March 1963), is a Mongolian politician and sambo wrestler who served as the 5th President of Mongolia from 2017 to 2021.
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.
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.
The Orano deal is also significant geopolitically, helping democratic Mongolia to further cultivate “third neighbor” links beyond the two authoritarian goliaths on its borders, China and Russia.
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 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.
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.
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 ...