The manifestos of all presidential candidates for the recent Mongolian presidential elections, which resulted in the victory of Khaltmaa Battulga, can be found below:
Khaltmaa BATTULGA (Democratic Party)
Brief bio: Khaltmaa Battulag born on 3 March 1963. In 2004, Battulag became a Member of Parliament for the first time from Bayankhongor aimag. He was re-elected to parliament in 2008 and 2012. He has served as the Minister of Roads, Transportation, Construction and Urban Development from 2008-2012. Battulag is also the President of Mongolian Judo Association.
I shall become a Patriotic President who will build a POWERFUL MONGOLIA that revers and respects, develops and flourishes the thousands of years of statehood, history, culture, root traditions, contemporary gains and accomplishments, the independence, inviolable sovereignty spanning over the past, the present and the future, and democracy, freedom and justice.
• I shall be a Patriotic President who revers unity and upholds national interest;
• I shall be a Patriotic President who safeguards freedom and justice, and upholds the citizens;
• I shall be a Patriotic President who will revive the economy, and promote the development of industry;
• I shall be a Patriotic President who will guarantee ecological balance and protects the country’s lands;
• I shall be a Patriotic President who will hearken a new era in exports and upholds equitable foreign relations.
Mongol State, Mongol Ger
Miyegonmbo ENKHBOLD (Mongolian People’s Party)
Brief bio: Miyegombo Enkhbold was born on 19 July 1964. He is currently the Speaker of the Mongolia Parliament. He has previously served as the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament as the representative of the minority MPRP. He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Mongolia from 2007 to 2012. He served as the Prime Minister between January 2006 and November 2007.
From 2005 until October 2007, he was the Chairman of the MPRP, and he had served as Mayor of the capital city, Ulaanbaatar. As the result of general election in 2012, he was appointed as Vice Speaker of Parliament. In the 27th Congress of Mongolia People’s Party, he was elected twice as the Party Chairman.
From the election manifesto: Mongolia is the abode, residence of we Mongolians. We are the children and grandchildren of a nation that recognizes the homeland as OUR OWN ABODE. We are a noble nation who are carrying forward the teachings of our ancestors “To bring the state to order, after bringing our home to order.”
Our Mongolia’s history has been one where we have been going downhill every time we have been at odds with each other, and where we have been flourishing and prospering every time we have been united. What are we Mongolians supposed to do for the tomorrow of our Home State? Every single Mongolian desires to look to the future as one person and reach the peak called development. We have one common history, one common goal, one single homeland, and one united nation. We Mongolians of one kin and kith, living under one sun and living at one time, we must unite in our minds and hearts, and then only can we together overcome the crisis and the challenges.
The time is nigh for us to join our hands and hearts rather than joining our voice to criticize each other. Now is the time for us to reconcile with and understand each other rather than breaking our ranks and going our own separate ways.
A Mongol Ger with eighty-one roof poles and only one window looking to the sun on the top cannot be built by one single person alone. The sincere wishes, noble goals, and the unity of us Mongolians are stronger and much more powerful than any kind of negation and any kind of word.
Our people, who bestowing confidence in the People’s Party in 2016 made it carry the brunt of the challenges, and they would also demand from the People’s Party the result of our performance.
This is not only trust and confidence, but more than that, this is great responsibility and a formidable assignment.
I would like to symbolically denote these assignments and tasks with the Top Roof-Area window frame (Toono), the poles holding and making the roof (Uni), the latticed walls – Khana, the support pillars – bagana and the door – Uud, and hereby present Thee my election program called “MONGOL STATE – MONGOL GER”. Only when these five elements of a ger come together can we have a wholesome and a sovereign MONGOLIA whose hearth would have a flaming fire, a lucky master overseeing the ger, and with horses on tethers.
May the flames of the in the hearth of the “MONGOL STATE – MONGOL GER” with a high threshold and boding good luck always rise upwards!
Have faith in us! We have a new Solution!
Sainkhüü GANBAATAR, (Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party)
Bief bio: Sainkhüü Ganbaatar was born on 30 July 1970. He served as a Member of the State Ikh Khural from 2012 to 2016 when he was elected as an independent candidate. He began his work career in 1997 when he was an intern manager with a Mongolian Khan Bank. In 2007, he became the President of the Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions, and in 2009 he was elected as the Vice President of the Mongolian Trace and Field Athletics Association. He became a member of the Mongolian People’s Revolution Party on the eve of his nomination as the MPRP Presidential candidate.
I shall devote myself to once again raise and echo throughout the world the value and status of a Mongolian. I do not have a speck of doubt in the prudence, talent, industriousness and hard-working nature, and luck of a Mongolian. The fate of the Mongolians is upright, we have a letter that is written upright, and we are a heavenly nation who are born upright.
I shall ensure that the people have jobs, the future generation of young people have better education, and I shall take care of the senior generation. With due consideration for the merit and blessing of our elders, who have handed to us today’s fully independent country, we shall repay for what they have done for us and I shall ensure that we create a peaceful environment in which they can live. Towards this end, I shall do the following:
1. Create a responsible governance and put an end to unemployment and poverty;
2. Curb the oligarchs and off shore account holders, and establish justice;
3. Respect the interests of the people and promote national interests and unity;
4. Be proud to have been born a Mongolian and devote everything for Mongolia;
5. The fate of the Mongolians is upright, we have a letter that is written upright, and we are a heavenly nation who are born upright;
6. Mongolians shall remain the masters of their homeland – Mongolia;
7. Ensure that we walk the talk;
8. Address pressing problems facing the homeland;
9. Set in motion the great millennium development process.
