Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan

Mendsaichaniin Enchsaichan (Mongolian Мэндсаиханийн Энхсаихан; * 1955 in Ulaanbaatar ) was the Prime Minister of Mongolia from July 1996 to April 1998.

Life

Early years

Enchsaichan was born in 1955 in Ulan Bator and is fluent in Russian and English. He studied International Economics at the State University of Kiev and graduated with a Doctorate in Economics from. From 1978 to 1988 he worked as an economist and deputy head of department in the Foreign Trade Ministry. Subsequently, he was until 1990 Director of Market Research Institutes.

From 1990 to 1992 he held for the Republican Party for the first time a seat in Parliament. He was Chairman of the Academy for Political Education in 1992. He then became chairman of the Joint election Commission of National Democratic and Social Democratic party presidential election on June 6, 1993. From 1993 to 1996 he was Chairman of the President 's office.

Prime minister

In July 1996 Enchsaichan Prime Minister, succeeding Puntsagiin Dschasrai. He was the first prime minister since the 1920s, which is not of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party ( MVRP ) belonged. 1998 made ​​him the parliamentary majority of Democratic and Social Democratic Party because of the slowdown in reforms to resign and replaced him with the former chairman of the DP Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj.

More career

From 1998 to 2003 was director of the Enchsaichan Premier International Co.. In January 2003, the Democratic Party chose him as their chairman, but this office he was again withdrawn in 2005. In the same year he entered the presidential election, but received only 20 % of the votes, thus losing against Nambaryn Enkhbayar ( MPRP ). Since 2004 he holds back a seat in parliament, this time for the DP.

In January 2006, he voted in Parliament with the MPRP for the dismissal of the government of his party colleagues Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj and defied so that a decision of the party leadership. As a consequence, the party initiated a process of elimination against him. In the new government under Mijeegombyn Enkhbold he became deputy prime minister. Together with the other excluded DP members he plans to form a new party for democracy and justice.

  • Prime Minister (Mongolia)
  • Member of the Great State Churals
  • Mongol
  • Born in 1955
  • Man
Democratic Party (Mongolia)
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