“In relation to the late arrival of the DP chairman from England, a weekly meeting of the executive board of the DP has been postponed for an uncertain period,” A. Baatarkhuyag, Head of the DP public relation’s department, told MonInfo Thursday morning.

DP Executive board member and Member of Parliament E. Bat-Uul said, “The party faction in Parliament might submit the petition of resigning the Government to the Parliament on Monday of the coming week.”

The law on the Parliament of Mongolia says that political parties or coalitions which do not have more than 8 seats in Parliament can form a faction and has the right and duty to define its policy and position and to make comments and conclusions on laws being discussed, other Parliamentary decisions and the government’s external and internal policies, as well as being able to submit items for direct discussion to relevant standing committees and parliament as a whole.

N. Tsogtsaikhan, Senior consultant of the Legal division at the office of Parliament said “There is no exact article in the law of Parliament that any political party faction can submit a proposal about resigning the Government to Parliament.”

Decree number 14, passed on January 27, 2006 on the rule of holding Parliamentary sessions, says that if the proposal to resign the prime minister, government or cabinet members is submitted to parliament, then the proposal of resigning the prime minister and government will be discussed within a meeting of the standing committee on state structure and the proposal of resigning only one Cabinet member will be discussed within the meeting of the pertinent standing committee within 7 days and comments and conclusion will be made.

 So far no official proposals for resignation of any cabinet members or the government have been submitted.