NEW SPEAKER OF MONGOLIAN PARLIAMENT IS ELECTED
The plenary meeting of the Parliament discussed an issue of electing a new Speaker of the Great State Khural (Parliament), as MP M.Enkhbold was removed from the post on January 29. According to a statement in the Law on Parliament that majority group in the parliament shall propose a candidate for the Speaker of Parliament, Mongolian People’s Party group nominated MP G.Zandanshatar.
The meeting was attended by 63 MPs, of whom 60 (95.2 percent) voted for him. Thus G. Zandanshatar was elected the Speaker of the Parliament. In this regard, he was discharged from the position of Head of the Cabinet Secretariat of the Government.
