R.Amarjargal wants to leave parliament

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A member of the State Great Khural (parliament) R.Amarjargal, who was elected from Sukhbaatar district of Ulaanbaatar city, submitted his resignation letter to parliament on Monday. His request will be discussed at the plenary session of parliament. If the appeal is approved there, Mr Amarjargal will be the second MP to resign on his own request, in history of our parliament. Prior to that, October 4, he requested to withdraw his membership from the National Consultative Committee of the Democratic Party, attributing his reasons to do so to "legal inability of the party organizations and to disappearance of initiatives to set the principles that give a right to decide on the party policies to the members who received mandates from the people, into the party rules". R.Amarjargal (53) was Prime Minister of Mongolia in 1999-2000. He is a leading member of the Democratic Party. He contributed to the democratic movement in Mongolia from the beginning. He was a founding member of the New Progress-Union and the National Progress-Party. He also helped to form the National Democratic Party (NDP). As per the latter, he was elected to the State Great Khural in 1996. In April of 1998, he became a foreign minister under Ts.Elbegdorj. In September of the same year, he nearly became a prime minister, according to an agreement between the governing coalition and the President, but was rejected by parliament in a close vote. He then remained as the FM until Elbegdorj's government had to step back in December. In 1999, Amarjargal became a chairman of NDP. He was finally designated as the PM on July 30 of the same year. He stayed in office for almost a year until July 2000, when the democratic parties were beaten at the parliamentary elections. While holding office, he had to abandon his seat at the parliament, because of a Constitutional clause still in force at that time. Also in the year 2000, NDP and Social Democratic Party merged to form Democratic Party. In 2004, Amarjargal was elected to the parliament as an independent candidate, before being re-elected there from the Democratic Party in 2012.