WORKING GROUP OFFICIALS HEAR VIEWS FROM PARTIES WITHOUT SEATS

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ A working group chaired by a Vice Speaker L.Tsog Tuesday received authorities of political parties without seats at parliament. This working group has been set up at the Standing committee on state structure with a responsibility for studying a matter on whether the Constitution of Mongolia should be amended or not. The Vice Speaker said the working group received the parties’ leaders in order to hear opinions and positions over the issue, and added that the working group has met eight times so far. “As of today, we have managed to agree with a necessity to amend the current Constitution. A group of scholars and researchers has put forward some 10 proposals in last four months,” he said. In turn, the parties’ leaders clarified a matter on possibility to hold referendum on the Constitution should be altered. They also reached an agreement with the working group with a necessary to amend the law on referendum, which was adopted in 1995. Present at the meeting were O.Bum-Yalalt, chairman of the Mongolian Green Party; B.Jargalsaikhan, chairman of the Republican Party of Mongolia; L.Onorbayar, the secretary-general of the Mongolian Conservative United Party; D.Enkhzaya, the secretary-general of the Mongolian Social Democratic Party; and J.Zanaa, a deputy chairwoman of the Civil Movement Party.