Tsendiin Nyamdorj
Mongolian politician, former Chairman of the State Great Khural.
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Tsendiin Nyamdorj (Цэндийн Нямдорж), born 10 August 1956 in the Malchin sum of Uvs Aimag, is a Mongolian politician from the Dörvöd tribe. He served as Chairman of the State Great Khural from 2005 to 2007 and later as Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs from 2017 to 2020.
A member of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (renamed the Mongolian People's Party in 2010), he has represented the 39th constituency in Uvs Aimag in parliament since 1992. Nyamdorj studied law in Leningrad, earning his degree in 1981, and worked as an attorney general before joining the council of ministers in 1988. He was deputy minister of justice from 1990 to 1992 and served as Minister of Justice and the Interior from 2000 to 2004.
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- Nyamdorj succeeded Nambaryn Enkhbayar as Chairman of the State Great Khural in 2005.
- In April 2007, the Constitutional Court of Mongolia ruled that Nyamdorj violated the constitution by unilaterally changing the text of several laws from the version approved by parliament.
- He resigned as Chairman of the State Great Khural on June 12, 2007.
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