Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat

This is a Mongolian name. The given name is Ochirbat, and the name Punsalmaagiin is a patronymic, not a family name.

Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat Mongolian: Пунсалмаагийн Очирбат
President of Mongolia
In office 21 March 1990 – 20 June 1997
Prime Minister	Sharavyn Gungaadorj Dashiin Byambasüren Puntsagiin Jasrai Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan
General Secretary	Gombozhavyn Ochirbat Bydragchaagiyn Dash-Yondon Nambaryn Enkhbayar Natsagiin Bagabandi Nambaryn Enkhbayar
Preceded by	Natsagiin Bagabandi
Succeeded by	Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Personal details
Born	23 January 1942 (1942-01-23) (age 69) Zavkhan, Mongolia
Political party	MPRP

Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat (Mongolian: Пунсалмаагийн Очирбат; born January 23, 1942 in Zavkhan) is a Mongolian political figure, a current member of the Constitutional Court of Mongolia. He served as the president of Mongolia, the first one elected by direct popular vote.

Mining engineer by profession, graduate of St. Petersburg (Russia) University. Worked as Chief Engineer in coal mine in Mongolia for six years before becoming Dy Minister Miny of Mining and Geology for four years followed by nine years as Minister.

From 1985 to 1990 he served as Chairman of the State Commission for Foreign Economic Relations. In 1990 a new Ministry was established for Foreign Economic Relations and Supplies and he became the first Minister of that ministry.

Career in the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP)

Ochirbat started as an engineer, and became Minister for Energy and Geology, and later Minister for Foreign Trade. Following the emergence of a democratic movement in Mongolia, he was elected president of the People's Great Khural in March 1990. By avoiding grave confrontations and crises in the run-up to the first multi-party parliamentary elections, he gained the support of nearly all political camps for the presidential election. On 3 September 1990, he was inaugurated as President of Mongolia.

The second term

The next presidential elections were held on 6 June 1993. Ochirbat had been popular, but the MPRP nominated the editor of the party newspaper Ünen, L. Tüdev instead of Ochirbat. Tudev had a reputation as a political hardliner. This gave the National Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party the chance to nominate Ochirbat as their own candidate. Ochirbat won with 57.8% of the vote.

Family

Ochirbat is married and has two children.

References

(German) Infosystem Mongolei

Political offices
Preceded by Jambyn Batmönkh	President of Mongolia 21 March 1990–20 June 1997	Succeeded by Natsagiin Bagabandi

Persondata
Name	Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
Alternative names	Ochirbat; Пунсалмаагийн Очирбат (mongolian)
Short description	Mongolian politician, former President of Mongolia.
Date of birth	23 January 1942
Place of birth	Zavkhan, Mongolia
Date of death
Place of death