Tuesday’s sitting carried Friday’s agenda, moved by the Speaker’s council when Thursday’s failed, and the same first item as Monday’s: the release of S. Amarsaikhan as justice and home affairs minister, the appointment of G. Temuulen in his place and the new minister’s oath. At 14:11 Ulaanbaatar time ikon.mn reported the sitting open and the prime minister presenting Temuulen’s nomination, with the oath to follow the members’ questions; the attendance sheet the parliament’s site posts after each sitting, which would show who made up the quorum, had not appeared by 14:25.
The arithmetic that failed twice is simple. The Mongolian People’s Party holds 68 of the 126 seats and a sitting opens at 64. On Thursday 44 of the 68 registered and the house reached 52; on Monday it reached 58, with 16 of the party’s own members, the former prime minister L. Oyun-Erdene, the former Speaker D. Amarbayasgalan and the dismissed justice minister S. Amarsaikhan among them, on ikon.mn’s list of those who had not registered.
The Democratic Party’s 42 members had made the opening the majority’s job. Their group leader, O. Tsogtgerel, said on Monday that the MPP can form the quorum of every sitting by itself and that the minority will take part once it has; he wants Prime Minister N. Uchral to put a confidence motion next to the budget. One of the 42, D. Ganbat, the only Democrat who registered on Thursday, said on Monday afternoon that the Democratic Renewal union, a group of more than 10 members of parliament, had decided he should stand for president in 2027 and that he had accepted.
The attendance sheet will say which.
The agenda behind the appointment is the same as last week’s: the release of Amarsaikhan and the appointment of G. Temuulen as justice and home affairs minister, then the third reading of the 2026 budget rewrite, the amendment that strikes 2 indicators from the fiscal rule, and the 2027 draft written to that rule at a 2% deficit. The pension rise dated 1 November sits inside the rewrite, funded by the coal company’s 1.5 trillion tugrik dividend.
Outside the chamber the morning went on as scheduled. The Speaker, S. Byambatsogt, received Mongolbank’s board on Tuesday morning on the monetary policy guidelines for 2027, the parliament’s site reported, and the Speaker of Australia’s House of Representatives, Milton Dick, arrived for an official visit. President U. Khurelsukh left for the UN General Assembly on Monday.
Two questions follow the opening. One is who opened the house: the majority’s own benches, as Tsogtgerel demanded, or the minority’s, and whether the 16 who kept away on Monday came back. The attendance sheet will say which. The other is the budget: the third reading of the rewrite, the fiscal-rule amendment and the 2027 draft were all waiting behind the quorum, and the pension rise dated 1 November is paid out of the first of them.