Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat

Punsalmaagiin Otschirbat (Mongolian Пунсалмаагийн Очирбат; * 1942 in Dsawchan Aimag ) is a Mongolian politician. He was the first determined by direct popular election of the President of Mongolia and holds a seat on Mongolian Constitutional Court.

Career

Otschirbat is a professional mining engineer and graduated from Leningrad University in Russia. First, he spent six years as chief engineer in a Mongolian coal mine. He then served as Minister of Mines and Geology. From 1985 to 1990, he stood before the State Commission for Foreign Trade. After that, he became minister of the newly created Ministry for Foreign Trade.

Policy

First Otschirbat was a member of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ). In March 1990, after the democratic changes in Mongolia, he was elected Speaker of the State Great - Churals. In this position, he won by mediation in confrontations support in different political camps for the presidential election campaign. On 3 September 1990 he went to the office of president. In the election campaign of 1993, the MPRP Lodongiin Tüdew presented as a rival candidate. Otschirbat was nominated by the opposition coalition National Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party and won with 57.8 % of votes. In the election of 1997, he then lost to Natsagiin Bagabandi.

Swell

• Stephen Kotkin, Bruce A. Elleman: Mongolia in the twentieth century: landlocked cosmopolitan. M.E. Sharpe, 1999, ISBN 978-0-7656-0535-1.
• Oliver Corff: Information System in Mongolia, Who Is Who Mongolia. Accessed on 3 February 2010.

• President ( Mongolia)
• Minister (Mongolia)
• Member of the Great State Churals
• Mongol
• Born in 1942
• Man