FILE -Mongolian Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai walks past journalists as he arrives to vote at a polling station in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, June 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
Protests against prime minister in Mongolia could lead to government shake-up
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) 鈥 Mongolia’s 10-month-old coalition government appeared to be breaking up as protests calling on the prime minister to resign entered their ninth day.
FILE -Mongolian Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai walks past journalists as he arrives to vote at a polling station in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia, June 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) 鈥 Mongolia’s 10-month-old coalition government appeared to be breaking up as protests calling on the prime minister to resign entered their ninth day.
The leaders of the three governing parties were meeting Thursday to review their coalition agreement, one day after the largest one 鈥 the Mongolian People’s Party 鈥 decided to eject the second largest from the coalition.
The People’s Party accused the Democratic Party of breaching the agreement after some of its backed calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai.
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Democratic Party leader Gantumur Luvsannyam, who is the deputy prime minister, said that the views of those legislators were not the party’s position.
鈥淚 never signed anything saying I would gag my members. I know my party鈥檚 temperament,鈥 he said.
The fate of the prime minister was unclear ahead of a parliament session on Friday. Oyun-Erdene has held the post for four years and survived previous calls to step down.
The ongoing protests were sparked by reports of lavish spending by the prime minister’s son. For the mostly young protesters, the reports brought to a head long-simmering complaints about government corruption involving officials and their families.
Mongolia is that is squeezed between China and Russia. A communist state during the Cold War, it transformed into a democracy after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The protesters say the country’s mineral riches have and the wealthy, while many Mongolians still live in poverty.
The coalition government was formed after for the People’s Party’s last June that reduced its majority to 68 seats in the 126-member parliament. The Democratic Party holds 42 seats and the third coalition member, the HUN party, has eight.
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