Ulaanbaatar
Public referendum might take place on making changes to Constitution
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Regarding the submitted draft law on making changes to the Constitution of Mongolia, N.Batbayar MP also presented on November 6 the draft resolution on running public referendum in order to decide discussing of constitution amendments by Parliament. The draft resolution proposes to hold the public referendum on November 26.
Constitution of Mongolia indicates that state power shall be vested in the people of Mongolia, the people shall exercise state power through their direct participation in state affairs as well as through the representative bodies of state power elected by them (3.1); and that a national referendum on constitutional amendment may be held on the concurrence of not less than two thirds of the members of the State Ih Hural, the referendum shall be held in accordance with the provisions of article 25 paragraph 1, sub-paragraph 16 of the constitution (68.2), pointed out the MP on the motives to develop this draft.
On November 26 of 1924, then-People’s Republic of Mongolia adopted the country’s first constitution. Mongolia’s first and only public referendum took place 70 years ago on October 20.
