Inside Mongolia’s Mining Royalty Reform: How a Tax Change Nearly Unseated the Prime Minister
- Mongolia Weekly
- Oct 27
- 3 min read
A fight over how to tax Mongolia’s mineral riches nearly cost the prime minister his job. What began as a technical debate on royalty reform erupted into a proxy war over the country’s economic model and the balance of power behind it.
Last week, President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh and the Constitutional Court stepped in to block an attempt to unseat Prime Minister Gombojavyn Zandanshatar. The court ruled on October 22 that Parliament’s no-confidence motion was unconstitutional in the procedure, leaving Zandanshatar in office amid deepening party infighting and public unease.
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