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MPP caucus plucks out their chair: Speaker may be next www.zgm.mn
Mongolian People’s Party (MPP) caucus in the Parliament held a meeting yesterday to discuss the board decisions, specifically the appointment of the next Minister of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry and ousting of Mayor of Ulaanbaatar Batbold Sundui and Head of MPP caucus Khayankhyarvaa Damdin, and approved both. The MPP board convened on Monday and the majority of members had agreed to dismiss Mayor Batbold Sundui and Speaker Enkhbold Miyegombo. The board went into a heated discussion over Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Development Fund sandal, during which potential ousting of Prime Minister Khurelsukh Ukhnaa and head of MPP caucus Khayankhyarvaa were brought up. Yesterday, the caucus approved the appointment of MP Ulaan Chultem as the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry regardless of the fact that MP Ulaan expressed to turn down the position before the meeting. Later on, the caucus held secret vote on ousting Khayankhyarvaa and ended in a 29:29 tie, which forced second ballot. After taking a break for 30 minutes, the caucus members proceeded with the second voting and approved the dismissal of Khayankhyarvaa with 32:27 vote. As for the ousting of Parliament Speaker Enkhbold, the caucus viewed that the discussion of the matter will violate the Constitution and called the MPP board meeting once again.
Before the caucus meeting, Prime Minister Khurelsukh received public representatives of protest with vehicles at their request and heard their thoughts on petroleum price increase and other social issues. PM addressed, “There are many things Mongolia cannot control related to oil products, which is completely import-dependent. The Government is taking necessary actions to maintain petroleum price, such as annulling excise tax on petroleum. Artificially sustaining petroleum price by printing money will not have effects in the long term and can fundamentally harm the economy.”
Minister of Finance Khurelbaatar Chimed explained, “Oil price has been falling for several weeks; however, it will take time for petroleum price to decrease as oil importers collected their reserves for higher price. The cheaper oil will be distributed in December, lowering petroleum price. Key driver for price raise was the U.S sanction on Iran, which affected global oil price.” After the meeting, the demonstrators announced to call off the protest.
Published Date:2018-11-14
