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Khaltmaagin Battulga, who served as President of Mongolia from 2017 to 2021, achieved a historic precedent by being elected as a member of Parliament, becoming the first former president in the country’s history to join the legislature.
Preliminary results of the Mongolian Supreme State Council (Parliament) elections, which took place on June 28, showed Battulga winning a seat in Parliament.
The former president ran in the elections as an independent candidate, after being excluded from the list of the opposition Democratic Party to which he belongs.
Battulga faced calls from some members of the Democratic Party to expel him in April 2024, accusing him of pursuing pro-Russian policies and actions inconsistent with the party’s ideology.
It is noteworthy that Battulga, who was the world champion in sambo in 1983, succeeded in the 1990s in business, becoming one of the most wealthy people in Mongolia.
He assumed the position of Minister of Road Development and Transport from 2008 to 2012, then Minister of Agriculture and Light Industry in 2012. In 2017, he won the presidential elections for the Democratic Party, but was unable to run again in 2021 due to a constitutional reform requiring the election of the head of state for only one term.
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