21 Facts About Nambaryn Enkhbayar

Nambaryn Enkhbayar served as the Prime Minister of Mongolia from 2000 to 2004, as Chairman of the State Great Khural from 2004 to 2005, and as President of Mongolia from 2005 to 2009.

Nambaryn Enkhbayar is the first person to have held all of the top three positions in the Mongolian government.

Nambaryn Enkhbayar was the chairman of the Mongolian People's Party from 1997 to 2005 and head of Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from 2010 to 2021.

Nambaryn Enkhbayar's eldest son, Batshugar Enkhbayar is a member of the State Great Khural from Mongolian People's Party.

Nambaryn Enkhbayar was born on 1 June 1958 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Nambaryn Enkhbayar finished a secondary school in 1975, and earned an undergraduate degree majoring in literature and language studies from Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, Russia in 1980.

Nambaryn Enkhbayar is married to Onongiin Tsolmon since 1987 and they have four children.

In 1992, as a member of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party Nambaryn Enkhbayar was elected to the State Great Khural.

Mongolia voted to retain former communist MPRP during its first venture into democratic elections, and Nambaryn Enkhbayar was appointed to serve as the country's Minister of Culture.

Nambaryn Enkhbayar held that post until 1996, when the Democratic Party ousted the MPRP in the parliamentary elections that year.

In 1996 Nambaryn Enkhbayar became the secretary general of the MPRP and led the opposition MPRP group in the Parliament.

Nambaryn Enkhbayar initiated an ambitious Millennium Road project to connect Mongolian territory from east to west.

Nambaryn Enkhbayar won the 2005 presidential election and became the Mongolian president.

Nambaryn Enkhbayar welcomed US President George W Bush who paid an official visit to Mongolia.

In 2010, Nambaryn Enkhbayar established a political party and named it Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party.

The IAAC stated that it arrested Nambaryn Enkhbayar for questioning in a graft case involving the illegal privatization of a government-owned hotel because he never showed up for questioning.

Over 1000 members of Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and Nambaryn Enkhbayar's supporters participated in Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party's organized demonstration demanding Nambaryn Enkhbayar's release on the same day of his arrest.

On 4 May 2012, Nambaryn Enkhbayar announced a dry hunger strike demanding his release.

Nambaryn Enkhbayar's sentence was reduced to two and a half year prison term without the fine by the Supreme Court of Mongolia-the highest court in Mongolia.

On 1 August 2013, President of Mongolia Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj issued a decree to pardon Nambaryn Enkhbayar thus releasing him from the rest of his jail term effective on the decree date.

Nambaryn Enkhbayar climbed the highest peak in Mongolia, Khuiten Peak, with mountaineers of the Mongolian Mountaineering Federation and the Nepal Mountaineering Association on 23 June 2011.