Standing committee on state structure meets

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ At its meeting on Tuesday, the parliamentary Standing committee on state structure discussed several issues. First, the Standing committee considered a matter of amending a composition of the Sub-committee on local governance, and then majority of the members backed a proposal from the Democratic Party’s (DP) proposal on joining N.Batbayar and S.Bayartsogt MPs to the Sub-committee. After this, the Standing committee discussed a matter of selecting heads of the Sub-committees. There were no questions and proposals from MPs, so the Standing committee’s members backed to select O.Sodbileg to become head of the Sub-committee on list of voters’ names and registration control; and N.Battsereg--head of the Sub-committee on local governance. The same day, the Standing committee discussed a draft resolution on setting up a working group in responsible for drawing up a proposal to a draft amendment to the law on the Public Radio and Television, and then decided to establish the working group led by M.Batchimeg MP. This working group will include N.Batbayar, S.Batbold, O.Sodbileg and G.Uyanga MPs. A draft resolution of parliament on agendas to be discussed at the spring session of parliament was discussed at the Standing committee meeting. The Standing committee head A.Bakei presented the draft resolution to the MPs. The list of agendas has received 11 proposals from the President of Mongolia; 13--from the Standing committee on security and foreign policy; one--from the Standing committee on environment, food and agriculture; five--from the Standing committee on social policy, education, culture and science; six--from the Standing committee on state structure; eight--from the Standing committee on budget; seven--from the Standing committee on economy; six--from the Standing committee on justice; 35--from the DP faction; 12--from the faction of the Mongolian People’s Party (MPP); 25--from the faction of the “Justice” coalition; and some 60--from the cabinet. In addition, S.Oyun, D.Ganbat and Kh.Bolorchuluun MPs have submitted eight proposals to the agendas. As of present, a total of 119 draft laws and resolutions have been submitted to parliament, and 68 drafts of them are being discussed.