THE STATE BAGA HURAL /1990-1992/

The State Baga Hural with its 50 members wereelected from 430 deputies of the People's Great Hural of the MongolianPeople’s Republic exercised its power in 1990-1992.

The State Baga Hural of the MongolianPeople’s Republic played a historicalsignificance in creation of legislative ground for reformations of Mongolia’spolitical, economic and social structures. Emphatically, this body has draftedthe new Constitution of Mongolia for ratification.

Foundations for legislative basis toimplement democratic principles at all areas of Mongolian society had beenestablished by the ratification of this new Constitution on January 13, 1992,which was drafted and submitted by the State Baga Hural to the sessions of thePeople’s Great Hural for deliberation.

In the political arena, the structuretransferred into democratic system that endorses multi-party structures. Thestate now has duty to recognize and guarantee people’s freedom of expressionand equality. In essence, the pluralism, one of the core values of democracy,has become the basis for social mentality. By adopting laws of the President,Government, State Great Hural, Constitutional Court and the Law on amendment ofthe Judiciary Institutions of the Mongolian People’s Republic, the legislativebasis for the new structure of government institutions has been created.

In the economic arena, multi-form economicsystem has been legally endorsed and the domination of public property basedsocialist economy has been eliminated. Economic relations based on faircompetition have formed and state interference have been curbed. All forms ofprivate and public properties find acceptance along with privatization processof state properties, establishment of legal environment for entrepreneurship,and modifications and amendments on banking, customs and taxation laws tookplace.

Structurally, the State Baga Hural consistedof the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, Secretary and 50 members. The executives ofthe State Baga Hural, the Chairman R.Gonchigdorj, the Deputy ChairmanK.Zardykhan and the Secretary B.Chimid would not hold seats at their party andtherefore they were directly elected from the People’s Great Hural. The 50members of the State Baga Hural were elected from the People’s Great Hural, bytheir party candidacy for the obtained mandates ate the election, in accordancewith the proportional allocation (1 seat for 5% of votes) of the State BagaHural seats to parties that won 5 or more percent of the electorates’ votes. Asa result, Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) won 33 seats, MongolianDemocratic Party (MDP) – 13, Mongolian Social Democratic Party (MSDP) – 4,Mongolian National Progress Party (MNPP) – 3 seats respectively.

The State Baga Hural was functioning with its5 Standing Committees:

1.   StandingCommittee on State Structures (Chaired by S.Bayar)

2.   StandingCommittee on Legal Affairs (Chaired by L.Tsog)

3.   StandingCommittee on Economic Policy (Chaired by M.Enkhsaikhan)

4.   StandingCommittee on Social Policy (Chaired by T.Ochirkhuu)

5.   StandingCommittee on Women, Children and Youth Policy (Chaired by R.Khatanbaatar)

As an inauguration of the permanentfunctioning parliament, the State Baga Hural has completed its mandate bytransferring its power to the State Great Hural that was formed in accordancewith the new Constitution of Mongolia and inaugurated on July 29of 1992. 

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