Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat

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Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat (Mongolian: Пунсалмаагийн Очирбат; born 1942 in Zavkhan) is a Mongolian political figure. He served as the president of Mongolia, the first one elected by direct popular vote.

Contents 1 Career in the MPRP 2 The second term 3 Family 4 References

[edit] Career in the MPRP

Ochirbat started as an engineer, and became Minister for Energy and Geology, and later Minister for Foreign Trade. Following the emergence of a democratic movement in Mongolia, he was elected president of the People's Great Khural in March 1990. By avoiding grave confrontations and crises in the run-up to the first multi-party parliamentary elections, he gained the support of nearly all political camps for the presidential election. On September 3rd, 1990, he was inaugurated as President of Mongolia.

[edit] The second term

The next presidential elections were held on June 6th, 1993. Ochirbat had been popular, but the MPRP nominated the editor of the party newspaper Ünen, L. Tüdev, not Ochirbat. Tudev had a reputation as a political hardliner. This gave the National Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party the chance to nominate Ochirbat as their own candidate. Ochirbat won with 57,8% of the vote.

[edit] Family

Ochirbat is married and has two children.

[edit] References

Infosystem Mongolei (in German)

Preceded by Jambyn Batmönkh

President of Mongolia March 21, 1990 - June 20, 1997

Succeeded by Natsagiin Bagabandi

Persondata
NAME	Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ochirbat; Пунсалмаагийн Очирбат (mongolian)
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Mongolian politician, former President of Mongolia.
DATE OF BIRTH	1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zavkhan, Mongolia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH