Ulaanbaatar
Presidential Election bill under discussion
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Parliament has started a discussion of a bill on Presidential Election, initiated by MPs N.Enkhbold, B.Batzorig, Z.Narantuya, N.Oyundari and D.Khayankhyarvaa. The bill is scheduled to be discussed during today’s meeting of the Standing committee on State Structure. The draft law was submitted to the Parliament on December 27 and brought under discussion of the Mongolian People's Party group in Parliament yesterday.
The previous parliament approved Law on Elections, which regulated all elections including Parliamentary, Presidential and Citizen’s Representative Meetings of provinces, soums and districts. However General Elections Commission put a request to organize elections under separate independent laws, as it was difficult to organize the previous parliamentary elections, adhering one combined law.
The Commission proposed to follow main contents, criteria and regulations of the 2013 Presidential Election law and to change organizational matters. As Presidential Election is to be organized this year, the bill on Presidential Elections was submitted and being discussed first of all.
MP N.Enkhbold noted that the Parliament intends to approve the bill within the mid-January and announce the Presidential Election date.
“- No principal changes will be made in election system, but changes related to procedure should be made to organize and run elections properly and orderly. The bill includes a clause that restricts to amend the elections law less than 150 days prior to the elections date. There will be no contradiction, in case the bill is approved within January, considering that the Presidential Election will be held late June” said MP N.Enkhbold.
