ULAN BATOR, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- Mongolian President Khaltmaa Battulga on Wednesday submitted an official letter to the country's Parliament Secretariat, asking to create conditions for plenary sessions of the parliament.
"I planned to give information on national security during the plenary session of the parliament on Dec. 21. But I could not give any information on scheduled time because members of the parliament boycotted plenary sessions of the parliament," he said in the letter.
"Thus, the Parliament Secretariat should pay attention for creating conditions for plenary sessions of the parliament in the coming days," he said.
More than half of the lawmakers in the 76-seat parliament, most of them belonging to the ruling Mongolian People's Party (MPP), have boycotted plenary sessions and meetings of standing committees of the parliament for four weeks, demanding parliament speaker Miyegombo Enkhbold's resignation over alleged conflicts of interest.
Mongolian Prime Minister Ukhnaa Khurelsukh also submitted a request to the constitutional court on Nov. 29 to dismiss Enkhbold.
Audio recordings were made public last year that some officials of the MPP, including Enkhbold, allegedly used their government positions as a tool to run in the parliamentary election in 2016.
Enkhbold has denied the allegations, saying he did not do anything unethical and illegal.
Earlier this month, Enkhbold submitted an official demand letter to the prime minister, asking to stop the boycotting of plenary sessions of the parliament.
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