E-Conference held on amendments to Constitution

On December 2, the Embassy of Mongolia in Germany and the Hanns Seidel Foundation jointly held an online conference to publicize the amendments to the Constitution of Mongolia, made last year.

During the conference, Senior Advisor to the speaker of Parliament D.Lundeejantsan, Head of the Hanns Seidel Foundation's Office in Mongolia Ts.Sarantuya and former director of the Europa-Institut, holder of the chair for European law and European public law at Saarland University Dr. Thorsten Stein made a presentation and answered questions from participants.

Highlighting that 28.5 percent of the Constitution of Mongolia have been amended, D.Lundeejantsan said, “It has preserved the constitutional principles and basic principles, strengthened parliamentary governance, streamlined the distribution of power, ensured mutual control and balance, and created a legal basis for improving the accountability of institutions exercising state power.”

Head of the Hanns Seidel Foundation's Office in Mongolia Ts.Sarantuya provided information on the power of president reflected in the amendments to the Constitution and the specifics of the regulation of the Constitutional Court.

Professor Stein recalled his involvement as an outside expert in the process of adopting Mongolia's Democratic Constitution, which is based on the principles of freedom, justice, human rights, and the rule of law as a whole, and expressed his views on the constitutional amendments.

In connection with the presentations, participants asked questions on the maturity of political parties, transparency of funding, the powers of local self-governing bodies, and the specifics of dispute resolution by the Constitutional Court.

In addition to the senior advisor to the speaker of Parliament, Director of the Parliamentary Research Institute of the Secretariat of Parliament T.Bayarmaa and more than 40 participants, including students and researchers studying law and politics in Mongolia and Germany, as well as Mongolian scholars and constitutional scholars took part in the conference.