Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
Punsalmaagiin Otschirbat ( Mongolian Пунсалмаагийн Очирбат ; born January 23, 1942 in the Dzawchan Aimag ) is a Mongolian politician . He was the first president of Mongolia to be elected by direct popular vote and has a seat in the Mongolian Constitutional Court .
Career
Ochirbat is a mining engineer by profession and graduated from Leningrad University in Russia . First he worked for six years as a chief engineer in a Mongolian coal mine. He then served as Minister for Mining and Geology. From 1985 to 1990 he headed the State Commission for Foreign Trade. He then became Minister of the newly created Ministry of Foreign Trade.
politics
Initially, Otschirbat was a member of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MRVP). In March 1990, after the democratic change in Mongolia, he was elected spokesman for the Great State of Chural . In this position he won support in various political camps for the presidential election campaign through mediation in confrontations. On September 3, 1990, he took up the post of President. In the 1993 election campaign, the MRVP posed Lodongiin Tüdew as an opposing candidate. Ochirbat was nominated by the opposition coalition consisting of the National Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party and won with 57.8% of the vote. In the 1997 election he lost to Natsagiin Bagabandi .
swell
- Stephen Kotkin, Bruce A. Elleman: Mongolia in the twentieth century: landlocked cosmopolitan . ME Sharpe, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7656-0535-1 .
- Oliver Corff: Infosystem Mongolia, Who Is Who of Mongolia . Retrieved February 3, 2010.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Djambyn Batmonk |
President of Mongolia March 21, 1990 - June 20, 1997 |
Natsagiin Bagabandi |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ochirbat, Punsalmaagiin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Очирбат, Пунсалмаагийн (Mongolian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mongolian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dzawchan aimag |