Mongolia PM filed resigns in the middle of protests over the sumptuous way of life of the son star-news.press/wp

Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene resigns is after lost vote on trust in parliament.

Voting was accompanied by mass protests due to corruption charges – they encouraged social media media on a lavish birthday birthday birthday and a son’s engagement.

Oyun-Erdene, who took office in 2021. years, will remain as a guardian of the Prime Minister until heirs were appointed within 30 days.

“I was honored to serve my country and people in times of difficulties, including pandemics, wars and tariffs,” he said after the vote.

He had to move away while he fell mostly, or 64 of the 126-seats of parliament. In the secret voter, they participated in the secret ballots, 44 of which vote for Oyun-Erdene, while 38 voted against him.

Hundreds of demonstrators, many of them young people, took over on the streets two weeks before the vote, demanding the resignation of Oyun-Erdene.

In particular, they pointed to his family – especially his son – an obvious sumptuous way of life, questioning the source of their wealth.

The Mongolians circulated on social media extravagant wedding proposal Oyun-Erdene’s son, as well as expensive fashion items.

Oyun-Erdene rejected the allegations for corruption, accusing critics that they were initiated by the campaign of smearing against him.

According to Transparency International, the guard, Mongolia saw the deterioration of corruption because Oyun-Erden entered power. Last year, 114 was ranked. 180 countries regarding government transparency.

The former Communist State of Sanwiched between Russia and China Mongolia passes to democracy from the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

Corruption is a permanent problem. Last year, American prosecutors tried to take away the former Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold’s two New York apartments that allegedly bought the use of stolen mining funds.

Batbold, who served since 2012. until 2015. year, he denied injustices.

In recent years, Mongolia tried to build closer ties with the West, counting the United States and European countries as part of their “third neighbor” foreign policy.