Ulaanbaatar
Parliament backs considering of bill on referendum
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ At its plenary meeting on Friday, the parliamentary session considered as necessity to discuss a draft law on running a referendum on where to amend the Constitution of Mongolia.
The bill was submitted by N.Batbayar MP on this November 6.
N.Enkhbold said it is necessary to discuss every clause of the amendment that aims to ensure sustainable operations of the government, to form a legal environment for implementing state policies and to choose local authorities regardless of political parties.
A group, working on the Constitution’s amendment, wants to run the national referendum together with the 2016 parliamentary election "because the current parliament will not be able to carry out it within its term".
A majority of MPs backed the bill, therefore it has been passed to the Standing committee on state structure for the first discussion.
