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- Mongolia's parliament in Ulaanbaatar will vote on June 2, 2025, on whether to keep Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene's coalition government in office amid protests over alleged corruption.
- The vote follows renewed tensions after reports surfaced last month about lavish spending by the prime minister's son and long-standing concerns about elite profit hoarding from Mongolia's coal boom.
- Hundreds of young demonstrators assembled outside the parliament, chanting "It is easy to resign," while the prime minister's office rejected the accusations as baseless and cautioned that the government's collapse could lead to serious economic instability.
- A Sancrox Political Advisory survey conducted from May 28 to 30 with 1,140 adults indicates that 63% support the Prime Minister remaining in office to carry out the National Wealth Fund initiative, while 53% want Members of Parliament to back the government in the upcoming confidence vote.
- The vote could trigger Oyun-Erdene's resignation if lost, but public opinion presently favors political continuity and rejects expanding presidential powers, underscoring Mongolia's preference for its parliamentary system.
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Mongolia PM faces likely confidence vote amid anti-corruption protests
Mongolia's parliament is expected to vote Monday on whether to keep its fracturing coalition government in office, amid protests against the country's embattled prime minister over alleged corruption.
How protests over designer handbags threw Mongolia into political crisis | News Channel 3-12
By Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Mongolia has been thrown into fresh political crisis with protesters calling for the resignation of the country’s prime minister over his family’s lavish displays of wealth. For two weeks, young Mongolians have taken to the streets of the capital putting pressure on Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai who will face a vote of confidence in his government on Monday. Democratic Mongolia is a landlocked nation of jus…
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Sancrox Political Advisory: Voters rally around Oyun-Erdene ahead of vote of no confidence
LONDON, June 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of Mongolia's first-ever parliamentary vote of confidence in a sitting prime minister, new polling shows that voters overwhelmingly back Prime Minister L. Oyun-Erdene and reject any shift toward a presidential system.
[Kyodo News, Ulaanbaatar] As demonstrations calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene continue in Mongolia, the Mongolian National Assembly (parliament) held a plenary session on the 2nd and began deliberations on whether to give the prime minister a vote of confidence. After the debate, a vote is expected to be held to ask whether the prime minister should be given a vote of confidence. Local media reported. The prime minister, …
Prime Minister L. Oyuun-Erdene submitted the question of whether to grant him a vote of confidence to the Parliament last Wednesday. The rules of the Mongolian State Great Khural session stipulate that the question of whether to grant him a vote of confidence in the law will begin to be discussed by the Standing Committee 3 days after its submission to the Parliament. Accordingly, the question will be discussed by the Standing Committee on State…
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