Mongolia’s Coalition government appears to be coming undone after only 10 months as protests push into the second week across the country demanding the current PM resign and a new election take place.
Protests against prime minister in Mongolia could lead to government shake-up– abcnews.go.com
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ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — Mongolia’s 10-month-old coalition government appeared to be breaking up as protests calling on the prime minister to resign entered their ninth day.
The leaders of the three governing parties were meeting Thursday to review their coalition agreement, one day after the largest one — the Mongolian People’s Party — decided to eject the second largest from the coalition.
The People’s Party accused the Democratic Party of breaching the agreement after some of its younger lawmakers backed calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai.
Democratic Party leader Gantumur Luvsannyam, who is the deputy prime minister, said that the views of those legislators were not the party’s position.
“I never signed anything saying I would gag my members. I know my party’s temperament,” he said.
The fate of the prime minister was unclear ahead of a parliament session on Friday. Oyun-Erdene has held the post for four years and survived previous calls to step down.
