Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat
| Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat | |
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| Пунсалмаагийн Очирбат | |
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| 1st President of Mongolia | |
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In office 21 March 1990 – 20 June 1997 |
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| Prime Minister |
Sharavyn Gungaadorj Dashiin Byambasüren Puntsagiin Jasrai Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan |
| General Secretary |
Gombozhavyn Ochirbat Büdragchaagiin Dash-Yondon Nambaryn Enkhbayar Natsagiin Bagabandi Nambaryn Enkhbayar |
| Preceded by | office established |
| Succeeded by | Natsagiin Bagabandi |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 January 1942 Zavkhan, Mongolia |
| Political party | MPRP (until 1993) |
| Spouse(s) | Sharav Tsevelmaa |
Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat (Mongolian: Пунсалмаагийн Очирбат; born January 23, 1942) is a Mongolian political figure and current member of the Constitutional Court of Mongolia. He served as president of Mongolia from 1990 to 1997, the first to be elected by direct popular vote.
Ochirbat was born on January 23, 1942 in Tüdevtei district, Zavkhan Province. He adopted his mother's name "Punsalmaa" after his father died in 1947. From 1951 to 1960 he attended school in Ulaanbaatar and then studied at the Leningrad Higher School of Mining, graduating in 1965 with a degree in mining engineering. That same year he returned to Ulaanbaatar and joined the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party.
In 1967 Ochirbat was named Chief Engineer at the Sharyn Gol coal mine in Darkhan-Uul Province before becoming deputy Minister of Mining and Geology in 1972. In 1976 he became a deputy in the People's Great Khural, a member of the MPRP Central Committee, and was concurrently promoted to full Minister of Mining and Geology. In 1985 he was appointed Chairman of the State Commission for Foreign Economic Relations and then became Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Supplies when the commission was elevated to ministry status in 1987.
Ochirbat was named Chairman (titular head of state) of the People's Great Khural on March 21, 1990 following the resignation of Jambyn Batmönkh and other government leaders in the wake of the 1990 Democratic Revolution. He was re-elected to the People's Great Khural in July 1990 parliamentary elections and then chosen by Khural members for the newly created position of President of the Mongolian People's Republic. The new Constitution of 1992 changed the official name of the country to Mongolia and Ochirbat's official title to "President of Mongolia and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces". The new constitution also set new presidential elections, the first to be decided by direct popular vote, for the following year, 1993.
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