| November 1, 2006 |
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| By Luke Distelhorst | |
| Wednesday, 01 November 2006 | |
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Movement
established against movements
A movement named ‘Ikh Mongol’ has announced its birthday yesterday and denied civic movements. Led by S. Baatar, retired Lieutenant and Lieutenant Kh. Tsogtbaatar, with a motto of ‘Let’s abide the constitution and respect the rules of the government,’ made a press conference yesterday. This movement which denied other civic movements will be working with the purpose of making a conclusion on current situations of society and of proposing optimal ideas and proposals. They consider that civic movements are provoking to establish more instability in society. (Daily News) President candidate Mr. A.Batsukh neither wins nor loses Yesterday Mr. Ts. Nyamdorj, Parliament speaker touched on the issue of immediate appointment of the Mongol Bank president. Apart from the soon to be ousted president of the Central Bank Mr. O. Chuluunbat and Mr. A. Batsukh, President candidate and its First deputy governor, all senior officers of the bank were present in the meeting of the standing committee on economy. The speaker collected votes informing that Mr. A. Batsukh has been nominated for the president of the Mongol Bank. Six of the 12 members of the standing committee supported him and the other half didn’t vote for him. Allegedly it doesn’t mean that the candidate has lost since it was a tie. It is hard to say that he has been selected as he has to obtain more than 50% of the votes to succeed. So it has been decided to discuss the issue of Mr. Batsukh who could obtain neither the majority of votes nor lost the battle along with the conclusion of the standing committee in the coming plenary session of the parliament on Thursday. (Ardiin Erkh)582 million MNT earmarked to fight corruption Law against corruption discussed for over year and ratified in the multi party Parliament comes into effect from today to be abided by in whole of Mongolia and the public hopes it will be like a shield to combat corruption effectively. Mongolia joined the UN convention on anticorruption last year and adopted its own law on the subject this year receiving appreciation from foreign countries. But with the adoption of the law the corruption won’t disappear overnight. It is no secret that politicians whose names are synonymous with corruption all the time are vying for the post of Chief of the anticorruption office clandestinely and openly. In fact according to the law the Parliament should appoint its chief and deputy chief as proposed by the President. According to the press it is highly probable that Mr. D.Sandag-Ochir, General and former Chairman of the General Police Department will be appointed as its Chief. There is even a disconsolate MP in the Government house saying “It doesn’t make sense that the Government squanders 2 billion MNT to please private company indebted to it and earmarks 582 million MNT to fight corruption. It is no use to establish an autonomous organization to fight corruption if the government is to be so tightfisted.” (Daily News) |
