History of Mongolia - Mongolia since 1990
It was not until the early 90s that Mongolia will adopt a system called "democratic". A new constitution was adopted in January 1992. In the same year that Russian troops finally left Mongolia. The official name of the country changed People's Republic of Mongolia. Following the resignation of Jambyn Batmönkhe in March 1990, Punsalmaagyn Otchirbat who will succeed him. The advent of this former foreign trade minister will inaugurate a period of political and economic liberalization. The first elections lieur then in July the same year. The new Revolutionary Party of Mongolia will be extended to power. 3 years later, in 1993, the first presidential elections were held in Mongolia. This is the outgoing president Punsalmaagyn Otchirbat is once again chosen to power. It will not be beaten in 1997 during the elections and will be replaced by Natchagyn Bagabandi.
In 1998 a political crisis when the government undertakes, headed by political opponents of the president, resigned because of conflicts with the head of Mongolian statehood. The Party of the Democratic Alliance has several candidates who are rejected by Natchagyn Bagabandi. In October 1998, a new candidate left very promising Sanjaasurejijn Zorig, is assassinated.
After several months of crisis, Rinchynnyam Amarjargal, a member of the Democratic Alliance (DA) is appointed Prime Minister. However, the government is facing a severe drought in 1999 and then to severe winter weather in 2000, killing nearly 2 million head of cattle and a major famine. Mongolia then call for international aid, while the AD is facing a growing corruption at high dissension and hostility of the president. Taking advantage of this crisis, the PPRM widely wins the legislative elections of July 2000 (72 of the 76 seats in the Grand Hural) and Nambariin Enkhbayar becomes Prime Minister. In May 2001, Nachagyn Bagabandi was re-elected as President of the Republic in the first ballot with 58% of the votes to face Democratic candidate R. Gonchigdorji. The participation reached 82.64 p. 100. In a country that is sinking into poverty, while being one of the most assisted by the world, landlocked between China and Russia, former Communists retain most powers.
