About MONGOLIA

The Mongolia first appeared to make a history in BC III century when Huns became powerful in Central Asia and then headed to Europe to harass the Romanian Empire until it lost its strength of dominating the Europe. Later Mongolia gained their bid fame in the 13th century when under Chinggis Khan's leadership they conquered a huge Eurasian empire. After his death the Empire was divided into several powerful Mongol state, but they these broke apart in the 14th century. The Mongols eventually retired to the original steppe homelands and succumbed to the Chinese colony for almost 200 years. Mongolia won its independence in 1921 with Soviet backing.
A Communist regime dominated 70 years until Soviet Union fell apart and then Mongolia embarked on a path to build democracy in 1990. Since the Mongolia is undergoing transition from the centrally-planned economy towards market-based free economy.
Mongolia is a multiparty democracy undergoing transition shifting from the centrally-planned economy to market based free economy since 1990. Mongolia's transition to democracy has been remarkable peaceful and the young democracy is robust-there are now more than 20poliitcal parties in the country.
The Government structure of mongolia is parliamentary republic the Constitution legalized the tenet that the Government is the highest executive body of the state. As the result of the State Great Khural's election, legal conditions to establish a new Government are provided.
The government is accountable for its work to the State Great Khural and term of its mandate is four years. The Government shall step down in its entirety upon the resignation of the Prime Minister or half of the members of the Government resign at the same time. Currently, Mr Sukhbaatar Batbold has been serving as the Prime Minister since November, 2009 and as well as the leader of the ruling party Mongolian People's Republic Party/MRPR/.
As a supreme government branch, the State Great Khural has a power to enact and amend laws, determine domestic and foreign policy, ratify international agreements, and declare a state of emergency. It is a unicameral legislature and its regular sessions are convened every every six months for 50 or more working days at a time The State Great Khural established Standing committees according to type to activities. The State Great Khural Committees according to types of activities. The State Great Khural maintains 7 Standing Committees and 5 subcommittees. The Mongolian people democratically elected their lawmakers in 1992 for the first time, while the last election was held in June,2008. The current Speaker of State Great Khural is Mr.D.Demberel from MPRP.
The President is the head of state, commander in chief of the armed forces, and head of the national security council. He is popularly elected by national majority for a 4 year term and limited to two terms. The constitution empowers the president nominate aa prime minister, call for the government's dissolution, initiate legislation and issue decrees, which become effective with the prime minister's signature. The current Mr. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj was elected by a majority of popular votes in 2009.