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Like clockwork, a new Government Crisis in Mongolia

by Viktor Frank, Lukas Smith

National Unity Coalition Collapses

The MVP, which has held a comfortable majority on its own since the parliamentary elections in June 2024, declared the alliance with the DP to be over during the night of May 21 to 22, 2025. A decision that appears to be strategically motivated.

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The end of the governing coalition between the Democratic Party (DP) and the Mongolian People's Party (MPP) did not come as a surprise—but the timing certainly did. The MPP, which has held a comfortable majority on its own since the parliamentary elections in June 2024, declared the alliance with the DP over during the night of May 21 to 22, 2025. A decision that appears to be strategically motivated: while the DP is being made the scapegoat for the government’s mixed record, the MPP is trying to conceal internal party tensions and secure its dominance. The "National Unity Coalition" project has thus come to an end after less than a year—yet another chapter in the history of Mongolia's unstable governments.

The full-length country report is only available in German.

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Viktor Frank

Head of the Mongolia office and Acting Head of the Kazakhstan office

viktor.frank@kas.de

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