The “Unyielding Desire” of Number One

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2025-09-24 20:30

The Mongolian People’s Party (MPP), the country’s oldest political force, has scheduled an extraordinary session of its party conference for this Saturday. Although the agenda is formally clear, the deepening internal rifts leave much uncertain about how and what will actually be discussed. In any case, under the Law on Political Parties, the party must convene its congress and deliberate on the matter of its chairman.

While the party’s bylaws contain no strict rule that the prime minister must also serve as party leader, this has become a customary understanding in the past. For this reason, Speaker G. Zandanshatar’s aspiration to become party chairman seems only natural. Yet, to dismiss L. Oyun-Erdene, the current chairman who led the party to electoral victory and secured a parliamentary majority, is likewise not stipulated in the rules.

By its last session, the Party’s Central Committee had already instructed parliament to dissolve the coalition government, effectively ending Oyun-Erdene’s administration under MPP’s direction. Now, to push him out not only as prime minister but also as party leader—after he had delivered electoral triumph—resembles a judge imposing a harsher sentence by blending the lighter with the heavier. From a fairness perspective, it is no surprise that Oyun-Erdene feels aggrieved. Still, as life teaches, even a white snow leopard may fall victim to ants when the time comes. Thus, it seems he has resigned himself to stepping down at the upcoming party conference—perhaps finding it easier to settle into his role as an ordinary MP.

On the other hand, entrusting the premiership to Zandanshatar, who could not even secure a parliamentary seat in his electoral district, risks reinforcing a narrow, “party-first” precedent harmful to both party and state.

Yet all of this appears less about Zandanshatar’s own ambition and more about the “script” carefully prepared by the Number One—our Head of State—who is already shaping his post-2027 path. The plan is transparent: Zandanshatar becomes party chairman and prime minister, and in 2027 he runs as MPP’s candidate in the presidential election. Like the sun rising and the moon setting, this scenario is seen as nearly inevitable.

For that outcome, control over the party seal is indispensable. If Zandanshatar rises to the presidency, the next question is who will then hold the party chairmanship and who will become prime minister. Here lies the present preoccupation of the First Man, who is eager to crown Zandanshatar as his chosen heir, his “pawn” in the political chessboard. For once Number One ascends above party politics and speaks in the name of Mongolia itself, his status would place him in the league of Nambaryn Enkhbayar.

Having served as Head of State, Speaker of Parliament, and Prime Minister, Zandanshatar would indeed become a towering political leader, etched into history. This, too, is the goal toward which he now exerts his full effort. Meanwhile, in the First Man’s vision, if Zandanshatar moves on to the presidency, he himself will reclaim the party chairmanship and the speaker’s gavel, thereby elevating his career to the same tier as Enkhbayar’s. At the very least, he is certain his hold on the premiership remains secure.

It is common for former presidents to return to the embrace of their native party, and U. Khurelsukh is no exception. As such, he is now moving his pieces and sketching his next political moves.

But one obstacle has already appeared on this path: D. Amarbaysgalan. Aware of the unfolding plan—and convinced of its viability—he has launched a preemptive strike by openly declaring his candidacy for party chairman. Once an offensive begins, counterattacks are inevitable. Already, political observers note that the chosen target of these counterattacks is none other than Amarbaysgalan’s close ally, Ts. Chuluunzagd.

The president, often mocked for imitating Russia’s “Number One,” seems to be following not only the Russian leader’s style but also his political playbook. The world remembers well how President Vladimir Putin once used Dmitry Medvedev as a stand-in pawn to hold the presidency in his stead.

Thus, it is increasingly clear that our Head of State has committed himself to this very path. Where it ultimately leads remains to be seen. All that is left now is to observe the atmosphere at the MPP’s extraordinary party conference, scheduled for 10:00 a.m. this coming Saturday, and see which way the winds will blow.

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