MPRP 2008 Parliamentary Election Platform PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 30 May 2008 18:30

THE MONGOLIAN PEOPLE’S REVOLUTIONARY PARTY

FOR THE 2008 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION

The MPRP is a political force with concrete policies and programmes that are aimed at strengthening national sovereignty, achieving stable development for the country, raising the living standards of its people and developing Mongolian citizens.
The public recognizes the objectives set out in the Election Platform of the MPRP, not only as pledges, but also as well justified, projected objectives which are viable for realization and fully reflect the views of electorates and citizens.
 
The MPRP has achieved all the objectives of its election platform for the 2004 Parliamentary Election in its entirety.  Based upon the current social needs and peoples’ wishes and aspirations, the MPRP now presents its new election platform for the 2008 Parliamentary Election, which is comprised of 12 policy measures and innovations set out in 271 objectives.

 
“Justice - Accountable Government, Progressive Development - Better life” is our goal, aspiration and motto.  The party will do its best and your support is needed.
 
Working closely together with all the people to implement this Platform, Mongolia will enter a new period of intensive development and increase the annual economic growth rate to exceed 10 percent on average.  GDP per capita will reach USD 5,000 by 2012 and Mongolia will become a medium-income country.
 
Summary of objectives from the MPRP Election Platform;
 
1. Human development is a quality of life
• Continue to provide allowances for new-born children and newly married couples;
• Provide one-time grants of Tgs 300,000 to families upon the birth of their third child;
• Provide annually Tgs 500,000 to mothers with the order of “Glorious Mother II” and Tgs 1,000,000 to mothers with the order “Glorious Mother I”;
• Create opportunities to increase the average monthly income per family by more than Tgs 1,000,000 by 2012 through ensuring an enabling environment for citizens to earn stable incomes;
• Create an effective mechanism to deliver social services at preferential costs and supplementary payments to citizens living in soums of remote areas and the Gobi region and working under harsh natural conditions;
• Create no less than 60,000 new job opportunities every year;
• Triple the minimum amount of full pensions for pensioners by 2012;
• Ensure that the State will be fully responsible for the food expenses of children at kindergartens;
• Transform the “Midday-Tea” programme into a “Lunch” programme;
• Create primary and secondary markets for long-term housing loans and decrease interest rates for long-term housing loans to 6 percent and increase the loan maturity to 25 years;
• Build apartments in the ger areas of districts in the capital city, aimags and in regional centers with participation by residents of ger districts.

2. Healthy body is a basis for success
• Create a “National Emergency Aid Network” that is able to provide necessary health services on time in all remote areas of Mongolia;
• Build specialised/professional hospitals to provide treatment for ailments, such as, liver, cardiology and gastroenterology;
• Provide, once a year, professional medical examinations and diagnosis free of charge for citizens under health insurance;
• Provide medical certificates to insolvent citizens, those with low living standards and disabled citizens, as well as free medical services at specialised/professional hospitals;
• Provide soum hospitals with no less than 2 doctors per hospital, as well as electrocardiographic apparatus and sterilization equipment.

3. Intellectual potential is a key to development
• Supply textbooks to pupils at secondary schools;
• Provide notebooks to all teachers at secondary schools;
• Provide full or partial scholarships or exemption from tuition fees, depending on students’ performance, and public transport at discounted rates;
• Ensure State responsibility for once a year round-trip expenses of students enrolled in schools and living more than 500 km from their homes;
• Provide vocational training schools and production centers fully staffed with professionals, lecturers with MA degrees, and modern laboratories, as well as increase the number of attendees by threefold;
• Renovate cultural centers at soums and ensure these are permanently operational.

 4. Pristine nature and sustainable use
• Promote “Citizens’-Cooperative” type community involvement groups for environmental protection and intensify participation by local citizens;
• Take comprehensive action against desertification and increase funding sources;
• Substantially reduce smoke and air pollution of Ulaanbaatar city and larger urban centers;
• Promote initiatives and proposals for environmentally-friendly, smoke-free, liquid and gas fuels;
• Increase funding allocation fivefold in the fight against fire, harmful rodents and insects.

 5. Rural development – new life
• Provide at preferential prices 8,000 small-sized tractors, together with supplementary devices, to herders;
• Ensure that all herders have access to social insurance accounts and health insurance;
• Exempt herders from animal taxation;
• Take action to protect the population from food shortages and price increases by creating stockmarket networks for agricultural products, as well as action to market by-products from raw materials and products generated by herders and crop cultivators in order to increase prices obtained;
• Ensure that the State finances animal disease preventive measures, such as animal-dip facilities and treatments, injections, vaccinations and drenching;
• Take decisive action to stop stock theft.

 6. Government support for crop-farmers’ efforts
• Find viable solutions for land privatization and leasing for crop-farmers and plantation cultivators;
• Engage annually in wheat farming on 300,000 hectars of land by restoring and re-using long-fallow areas for crop cultivation and applying new and eco-friendly technologies;
• Ensure that Mongola becomes a self-sufficient country in the production of wheat grain, wheatflour, potatoes and vegetables;
• Provide at preferential prices 12,000 small-sized tractors with supplementary devices, to crop-farmers and introduce the leasing of large and medium-sized equipment for the crop-cultivation industry.

 7. National industrial production is the guarantee for progress
• Exploit Tavantolgoi coal deposit, Oyu tolgoi copper-gold deposit, Tsagaan suvarga copper-molybdenem deposit, Asgat silver-polimetal deposit, Yoroo iron deposit, and Mardai uranium deposit;
• Review the order and licensing process of previously issued licences for minerals’ exploration and extraction;
• Identify ways and means for every citizen of Mongolia to benefit consistently from the country’s mineral wealth and also to become shareholders by establishing national corporative groups based on some deposits of strategic importance;
• Adopt a special law to establish a “Gift of the Motherland” Fund based on profits to be made from the commercial use of mineral deposits of strategic importance and effectively allocate funds for development of the nation and improvement of living standards for the people;
• Establish a special fund with soft loans to support small and medium-size enterprises requiring advanced technologies in to order to process Mongolian cashmere, hides and skins, sheep and camel wools and animal hair and fibres;
• Establish special regions for tourists and increase the number of foreign tourists to one million in 2012.
 
8. Accessible infrastructure for every citizen
• Continue and intensify the breakthrough work of the Millenium Road to build asphalt roads to connect all aimag centers to the capital city - Ulaanbaatar;
• Build the Zamyn-Uud-Ulaanbaatar-Altanbulag and the Yarant-Khovd-Ulgii-Ulaanbaishint highways and connect these to the Asian Road network;
• Dramatically reduce road congestion by constructing two-level road connections at the overloaded cross-roads of Ulaanbaatar city, and building parking venues;
• Construct an international airport in the Khushigt Valley of Tuv province and connect it to Ulaanbaatar city;
• Build secondary railway tracks at overloaded sections and transfer the railway system to electrical power;
• Provide reliable energy sources to every household and achieve the goal of becoming an energy-exporting country in the future;
• Explore and find solutions to contruct a nuclear energy power plant.
 
9. Accountable Government – good governance
• Improve the electoral system;
• Within the existing laws, firmly act to cure social ills, such as, moral degradation, alcoholism, drug addiction and prostitution;
• Improve social structures, order and discipline, to prevent crime, and act firmly to ensure the safety and security of citizens’ lives;
• Reform civil service to be effective, qualified, accountable, and to be conducted with high ethics;
• Ensure strict abidance by Government officials to rules of ethics in public service and hold accountable those responsible for misconduct ensuring that apologies are issued for misdemeanors;
• Enhance openness and transparency in work undertaken by Government organizations and provide public access to all information, other than that classified as confidential to the State;
• Ensure openness of civil service under public oversight by providing regular reports on budget administration and spending and its effectiveness to the public;
• Provide normalized working environments for citizens, entities and institutions within the laws by reducing the number of licence requirements and reviewing regulations which impose restrictions, cause bureaucratic red tape and delays;
• Reduce the number of stages implemented by public service organizations and providers to the public and transform these to become one-stop services;
• Ensure that high ranking Government officials make any conflict of interests known to the public;
• Create an efficient and effective mechanism for State-citizens’ collaboration to ensure public participation and oversight in the fight against corruption;
• Establish an integrated system of population registration by creating an efficient structure for registration, information management and administration;
• Establish an efficient system for the de-registration and re-registration of citizens changing their domicile addresses;

 10. Civil society – public aspirations
• Seek public opinion through open debate at least 45 days prior to adopting major laws which affect public interests;
• Create a new legal environment for activities of all civil society organizations by making changes to the Law on non-governmental organizations;
• Provide Government support for civil society organizations operating at national levels;
• Expand the scope for the delegation of Government functions to civil society organizations on a contractul basis;
• Protect the rights of media organziations and journalists and create an appropriate legal environment to define press accountability;
• Create a legal environment to ensure the freedom of information to citizens.

 11. Security and safe environment
• Consolidate civil-military interactions by improving civil controls over military organizations;
• Implement comprehensive measures to improve the quality of living for military personnel, expand social safety, and provide medical and recreation services for military officers, staff, retired military personnel and their families;
• Create an efficient structure for relevant authorities to combat organized and cross-border crime by ensuring a safe environment for people in border regions and enhancing a comprehensive border protection system;
• Take measures to provide benefits and other supplementaries and improve management and legal regulations aimed at increasing the participation of local citizens in the protection of State borders.
 
12. Trusted partnership – foreign policy
• Develop friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation with all countries within the framework of open and multi-pillared foreign policies;
• Strengthen good-neighbourly relations with the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China at all levels;
• Pursue balanced policies when attracting the political and economic interests of foreign countries to Mongolia, with a view to ensuring the national security and fundamental interests of its people;
• Firmly protect the legal rights of Mongolian citizens living abroad and further promote a citizen-centered foreign policy;
• Ensure sustained development of the country by improving the competitiveness of the nation, increasing foreign trade and promoting investment.
 

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