New Mongolian Prime Minister Gombojav Zandanshatar (front left) being congratulated after a vote in the parliament in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia on June 13, 2025. - AFP
ULAN BATOR: Gombojav Zandanshatar was on Friday (June 13) appointed as Mongolia's new prime minister at the proposal of the ruling Mongolian People's Party, Xinhua reported.
Zandanshatar's appointment was approved by a vote of 92.3 per cent in the country's 126-seat parliament, or the State Great Khural.
On June 9, the Mongolian People's Party nominated Gombojav Zandanshatar for the post.
According to Mongolia's parliament speaker Dashzegve Amarbayasgalan, since the State Great Khural did not pass the draft resolution on the vote of confidence in the prime minister, Luvsannamsrai Oyun-Erdene was deemed to have resigned from the post of prime minister on June 3.
Oyun-Erdene convened a regular meeting of the government on May 28 and submitted the draft resolution on the vote of confidence in the prime minister to the State Great Khural.
The Mongolian Constitution stipulates that if the draft resolution is not passed, the prime minister is deemed to have resigned, and a new prime minister will be appointed within 30 days.
Since 2004, Zandanshatar has been elected four times as a member of the State Great Khural.
He was chairman of the State Great Khural from 2019 to 2024 and served as chief of cabinet secretariat of the Mongolian government, minister for foreign affairs and deputy minister of food and agriculture. - Bernama-Xinhua
