Ruling Mongolian People’s party announced that it is
withdrawing draft law on Presidential election 5 months ahead of Presidential
election this year.
Sodbaatar Yantai, Vice chairman of MPP parliamentary group
said the draft law was withdrawn in order to maintain “parliamentary unity and
understanding” for the sake of national unity
and “procedural difficulty” of revoking existing election law, namely
180 articles of this law and legal
requirement on time factor that requires no election law is to be revised in 6
months ahead of any election.
Lawmakers from both ruling MPP and opposition Democratic party
(DP) were conducting hearings about the draft law on presidential election.
During the hearing of the draft law, 149 different opinions about the draft law
were made by lawmakers and public and political parties and according to
Sodbaatar, it is hard to reconcile these contradictory opinions in the draft
law.
Previously, MPP and General Election Committee that oversees all
elections in Mongolia considered that current Election law of Mongolia can not
fully regulate all election processes in Mongolia and therefore, separate law
on Presidential election is required.
Now, MPP parliamentary group considers that in
future, it is appropriate to have separate laws for parliamentary as well
presidential and local council elections, however, these draft laws should be
submitted and discussed at the same in order to avoid legislative procedural
error.
Sodbaatar said now the General election committee can now set
date for the upcoming Presidential election since the draft law is withdrawn
and election law will not be revised.
Presidential election it expected to be held in late June this
year as previous elections.
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