Natsagiin Udval

Natsagiin Udval
Нацагийн Удвал
Personal details
Born (1954-03-05) 5 March 1954 (age 70)
Erdenemandal, Mongolia
Political partyMongolian People's Revolutionary Party

Natsagiin Udval (Mongolian: Нацагийн Удвал) is a Mongolian politician. She has been the secretary general of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party since 2010. She is the country's Health Minister. She was a candidate for the 2013 Mongolian presidential election, being the first woman to do so.[1][2][3] Udval supports former president Nambaryn Enkhbayar who is in prison on corruption charges.[4]

Incumbent President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, candidate of the Democratic Party, won the 2013 Mongolian presidential election on June 26, 2013 with 50.23 percent of total votes while Mongolian People's Party candidate Badmaanyambuugiin Bat-Erdene got 41.97 percent, and Natsagiin Udval got 6.5 percent of total votes.[5][6]

As health minister, Udval's only notable work has been a change to the prisoners' medical treatment rule which allowed former President Nambaryn Enkhbayar, who was convicted of corruption charges, to spend less than a month in prison and spend most of his two and a half year jail term as a patient at the Second General Hospital, where high-ranking government officials are medically treated.[7]

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  4. ^ Namjilsangarav, Ganbat (26 June 2013). "Mongolian President wins re-election". The Globe and Mail (AP). Retrieved 27 June 2013.
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  6. ^ "Incumbent Mongolian president wins 2nd term on pro-Western, anti-graft platform". Washington Post. Washington. June 27, 2013. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
  7. ^ D., Chinguun. "N.Enkhbayar, a prisoner or an "honorable" patient of health sector?". time.mn (in Mongolian). Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2013.