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  • Who knows all the countries in the world or even knows the basics about these countries?

  • In this small series I would therefore like to give you a little overview and that includes a brief overview of the most important data on their political system.

  • And today it is about Mongolia.

  • And that is already the official full name of the country.

  • The form of government is a parliamentary democracy with a constitution based on the rule of law.

  • The head of state is Kaldmar Batulga, President of the Republic.

  • He was appointed on July 10, 2017.

  • He is from the Democratic Party.

  • The head of government is Lufsanam Srei Oyun Erdene, Prime Minister appointed on January 27, 2020 from the Mongolian People's Party.

  • The Foreign Minister is Batmung Batsasek, appointed on January 27, 2020.

  • On the Human Development Index they rank 99th place.

  • The poorly populated, because only 3.2 million inhabitants, ethnically largely homogenous, with 94% Mongolian, state of Mongolia, has made considerable progress in terms of democratization and the development of market economy structures.

  • The 1992 constitution provides for a separation of powers between the legislature, government and judiciary.

  • Freedom of the press and freedom of expression is guaranteed.

  • Mongolia has a multi-party system.

  • The largest parties represented in parliament are the Mongolian People's Party, the MVP, which is currently the ruling party, and the Democratic Party, the DP, as the opposition party.

  • Mongolia is organized centrally and has 21 amoks, that's provinces headed by governors.

  • The capital, Ulaanbaatar, has a special status.

  • The geographical location between the two great powers, Russia and China, is decisive for Mongolian foreign policy.

  • They pay attention to close relationships with their immediate neighbors and at the same time try to maintain their independence.

  • In addition, they maintain close relationships with their third neighbors, Japan, South Korea, USA, Germany and the rest of the EU.

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