The sitting ran on Article 39.4 of the Constitution, under which the prime minister appoints and releases members of the government after presenting them to the Khural and the President; the notice went to the President on 17 September, the parliament’s account says. Uchral gave one reason for the change, “the need to end a situation that had come to affect the normal work of the justice and home affairs sector, the duty of securing the country’s internal security, and public trust in state bodies”. Under Article 26.3 of the law on session procedure a government member so presented “is deemed presented to the State Great Khural, and the State Great Khural takes no decision”, so the chamber heard the presentation and Temuulen was sworn in.
The 24 who spoke included O. Tsogtgerel, the Democratic Party’s group leader, S. Amarsaikhan himself, and 2 names from Monday’s lists of absentees, A. Undraa of the National Coalition and M. Narantuya-Nara of the Civil Will-Green Party. What they raised, in the parliament’s summary, runs from the defence of reputations and the guarantees of citizens’ rights to the control of the drug trade, the transparency of state bodies and “the state’s factional split”.
The house opened, and who opened it is not yet on paper. Its account gives the number and the percentage; the attendance sheet it posted for Monday’s failed sitting the same day had not appeared for Tuesday’s by 21:50 Ulaanbaatar time. Of the 126 seats the Mongolian People’s Party holds 68, and 16 of its members were on Monday’s list of the unregistered; the Democrats hold 42, and Tsogtgerel had said they would take part once the majority made the quorum by itself. ikon.mn’s photographs from the floor carry one caption for the 2 sides of the room, “the 30:38”, the split inside the ruling party that Amarbayasgalan puts at 30 for his group; 68 less 30 leaves 38 on the other side of the party.
The exchange that ended the day came from a Democrat, B. Jargalan: “You cannot bring in a budget expanded by 10 trillion tugrik and say you were thinking of the people.” Uchral answered with the law on state companies’ governance, the rule that from 1 January 2027 at least 30% of state companies’ net profit goes to the budget, and a figure, “Oyu Tolgoi’s dividend is 3 trillion tugrik”. He refused the confidence motion the Democrats want him to table: “What is the logic of telling me to bring in my own confidence vote?”, “I am confident in the budget I have drawn up”, and then, “If you do not like my work, Uchral, let the Democratic Party collect its signatures and submit the letter to dismiss me.”
Amarbayasgalan spoke at 17:58, before the prime minister’s answer was published. “I plan to meet Prime Minister N. Uchral today. Politics is consensus. We have to talk face to face.” He called reports that his group had shrunk to “ten-odd” a lie spread to make it look smaller: “Our 30 members are people who took one side on the biggest political choice.” He put a date on the table, “The state budget must be approved by 15 November. Today is 22 September”, and a mechanism: if the government falls and no prime minister is appointed within 30 days, the President dissolves parliament.
The house opened, and who opened it is not yet on paper.
None of the budget items behind the oath was reached on Tuesday: the third reading of the 2026 rewrite, the amendment that strikes 2 indicators from the fiscal rule, the 2027 draft written to a 2% deficit and the pension rise dated 1 November, funded by the coal company’s 1.5 trillion tugrik dividend. The parliament’s account names no time for the next sitting. The Democrats now hold the prime minister’s dare in his own words; Amarbayasgalan holds a meeting; the calendar holds 15 November.