Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (Mongolian Цахиагийн Элбэгдорж; born March 30, 1963 in Zereg, Khovd Aimag ) is a Mongolian politician. He was from 23 April to 9 December 1998 and from 20 August 2004 to 25 January 2006 Prime Minister in June 2009 and is President of Mongolia.
The possibility raised by his Democratic Union initiated the democratization of Mongolia and contributed to the fact that after 75 years of socialist one-party state has been eliminated in favor of an open and democratic society.
Life
Elbegdorj was bought in 1988 with a BA in Journalism at the Military Political Institute of the USSR in Lvov (now in Ukraine ) and in 2002 a master's degree in Public Administration at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. From 1981 on, he was employed by the Erdenet mining company. From 1988 to 1990 he worked as a journalist in the army newspaper Ulaan Od.
On 1 July 2007 Elbegdorj was seriously injured in a traffic accident on the way between Kharkhorin and Ulaanbaatar.
Democracy movement
On the morning of December 10, 1989 took place against the Youth Palace in Ulan Bator for the first time a public pro-democracy demonstration in Mongolia instead. There Elbegdorj announced the establishment of a democratic movement. His followers gave him for it the nickname "Golden Hawk of democracy."
In 1990 he founded the first independent newspaper in Mongolia, Democracy, where he held the post of chief editor. The Mongolian Press Association awarded him the 2000 "Star of the freedom of the press " for his efforts to establish a free media and protect. In 1995 he participated in the founding of the TV station Eagle TV, a Mongolian- American joint venture.
As the first president of the association, founded in 1991 ranchers, he helped to organize the re-privatization of socialism largely collectivized grazing livestock, which the nomads received back their livelihoods. In 2000 he was one of the founders of the NGO " Freedom Center", he was appointed to the advisory board of the Foundation " Young Leader" in 1992, he became the senior member of the Academy for Political Education in 1993. From 2002 to 2003 he was a consultant for the UN project " Millennium Development Goals " worked well for the " Free Press " in Washington.
Political career
Between 1990 and 2000, Elbegdorj was elected three times to the Mongolian Parliament. He was instrumental in the design and the implementation of the new constitution, human rights, democracy and market economy in Mongolia allowed.
As head of the Democratic Party, he led, together with other democratic coalition to a historic victory in the parliamentary elections of 1996. Between 1996 and 2000 he was majority leader from 1996 to 1998 and Vice President of the Parliament.
As chairman of the State Commission for rehabilitation, he initiated the formal apology of the state towards the victims of the Stalinist purges and their families. The Commission established by the Rehabilitation Act, which governs the rehabilitation and compensation and prohibits future violations of human rights.
Government activity
1998, a constitutional amendment was deleted, which until then had MPs prohibited from participating in the government. On 23 April of the same year Elbegdorj became the youngest Prime Minister in the current Mongolian history. During this tenure, he tried the economic, structural and social problems of the country to tackle and continued the opening of foreign policy. On December 9, but it put the dominated by his own party parliament again.
On 20 August 2004 Elbegdorj was Prime Minister for the second time, this time in a grand coalition with the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) after the elections had led to a balance of power in Parliament. In this tenure, he made up his mind to fight corruption and replaced by Russian English as their first official language.
The MPRP withdrew but contrary to the coalition agreement on 11 January 2006 from the government back, which Elbegdorj had to submit his resignation on 13 January. On 25 January, he handed over the presidency to the MPRP party leader Mijeegombyn Enkhbold.
In the 2009 presidential election, he could scarce prevail against the incumbent Nambaryn Enkhbayar of the MPRP and was sworn in on 18 June as president of Mongolia.
In the presidential elections on 26 June 2013, was re-elected with 50.23 % of votes.
Works
Elbegdorj published in Mongolia with path of freedom and the years of the last two books so far. As a journalist, he published a large number of essays and articles, both in Mongolia and in international publications. He lectures at the Mongolian National University and is a frequent speaker at home and abroad on issues such as international security, freedom and development.