Puntsagiin Jasrai

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Puntsagiin Jasrai ( Mongolian Пунцагийн Жасрай ; born November 26, 1933 in Bugat, Gobi-Altai-Aimag ; † October 25, 2007 in Ulaanbaatar ) was the Prime Minister of Mongolia from July 21, 1992 to July 19, 1996 - the first after the democratic turn.

Life

Early years

Jasrai was born in Bugat in November 1933. He finished middle school in Tanxil at the age of 17. After that he was a teacher, soon headed a primary school and then became educational inspector for the Aimag administration. From 1956 he studied at the Institute for Economics and Statistics in Moscow and graduated there in 1961. He was married and has a daughter and two sons, all of whom are independent business people.

Political career

After 1961, Jasrai worked in a leading position in various planning bodies in the Mongolian People's Republic . In 1985 he was appointed chairman of the State Planning Commission. He was repeatedly a member of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MRVP) and at the end of 1990 he became an alternate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the MRVP and President of the Central Union of Cooperatives in Industry and the Service Sector. For three months he was even deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers (deputy head of government). In total, he was elected four times in the Great State Chural (Parliament).

From 1992 to 1996, Jasrai was Prime Minister. This made him the first head of government in a democratic Mongolia. For the 1996 election he ran for a seat in parliament in the Gobi-Altai-Aimag, but was only successful four years later.

politics

As an economist, Jasrai had the future economic development of Mongolia in mind from the start. He had microeconomic knowledge and was an advocate of free market economy relationships. As early as the mid-1980s, he had proposed allowing private property to enter the national economy. As President of the Central Union of Cooperatives in Industry and the Service Sector, he made extensive business contacts abroad, which he used and expanded during his time as Prime Minister.

During his reign the prices for consumer goods were released and a free exchange rate for the national currency Tögrög was established. Nonetheless, he was heavily criticized in some cases because many opposition politicians were of the opinion that the reforms were not being implemented quickly and consistently enough. The government of the MRVP often resorted to administrative methods to control the economy instead of switching to the use of economic measures. Along with other members of the government, he was also accused of corruption and abuse of power. A committee of inquiry dominated by the MRVP found no misconduct, but the committee minority from the democratic parties said that an investigation had not even been attempted.

The MRVP had been formally transformed from a communist to a social democratic party . However, it was still able to fall back on close personal ties with the state's administrative structures. Jazrai himself concentrated his energies on economic transformation, while political reforms made only comparatively slow progress. The result was a landslide victory for the democratic parties in the parliamentary elections in 1996, which temporarily pushed the MRVP completely out of government affairs.

predecessor	Office	successor
Daschiin Bjambasüren	Prime Minister of Mongolia July 21, 1992–19. July 1996	Mendsaichaniin Enchsaichan

Mongolian name: As is customary in Mongolia, in this article the patronymic is in the genitive case before the proper name. Thus Puntsag patronymic, Dschasrai the proper name. The person is addressed with their proper name.