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By D. Binderiya   
Thursday, 26 October 2006
Nearly twelve hours of heated debate in Parliament discussions Wednesday ran well into the night as the Great Khural discussed the issue of resigning the government that had been introduced by the Democratic Party and will be voted on Thursday, MPs said Wednesday night.

Comments will be made during the parliamentary session and members will vote whether to resign the government at 10 a.m. Thursday.

As mentioned on the sequence of issues to be discussed of Parliament integrated session on Wednesday, October 25, the proposal about resigning the Government was introduced by L. Gansukh, Head of the Democratic Party faction in the parliament. Then D. Idevkhten, head of MPRP fraction in the parliament introduced the comments and conclusions of the MPRP faction.

Finally after introduction of the conclusion from Standing Committee on State structure by D. Dondog, Head of the committee. 11 out of 16 members of committee voted not to resign the Government at the State structure standing committee meeting on 18 October.

DP members in Parliament expressed their views on conflict of interests for the members of cabinet as L. Gansukh showed a document about the tender which has issued MNT 3 billion to Buyan Co., Ltd when this company had a debt of MNT 1.3 billion to pay to the Mongolian Government.

E.Bat-Uul, DP member in the Parliament expressed, “I am upset that the Mongolian government has turned into a trade of private companies.”

However MPRP members continually said that the discussion had gone on long enough, and a vote was necessary.

“This is a waste of our time! Please, let us vote now,” L. Otgonbayar said late near the end of arguments.”

MP S. Oyun, Head of the Civil Will Party asked, “We have passed the Political party law almost 2 years ago which is under implementation. The law says the maximum donation to the party can not exceed more than MNT 1 million. Is it true that the MPRP got MNT 100 million from former customs chief, Baatar as a donation?”

Prime Minister Enkhbold confirmed the receipt of a donation from Baatar, but did not disclose the amount.

While the MPRP defended their barely 9 month old government, DP members claim that the Government cabinet was supposed to submit a plan of action which has not been submitted to Parliament within 60 days of when the cabinet was formed.

A vote, likely to come Thursday morning, will set the 23 MPs who signed the letter for resignation against 39 members of the MPRP and four independents.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 26 October 2006 )