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MongoliaRegional and Local Party Organizations
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Provisional national government
headquarters, Ulaanbaatar, July 1921
Courtesy Institute of Party History, Ulaanbaatar
A general understanding of the size of the party structure
below the national level was provided by reports in January 1981
that recorded "twenty-seven provincial, town and equivalent-level
party committees, seven urban district party committees, 256
basic-level committees, and 2,600 party cells." In March 1989,
Batmonh noted that there were 3,199 primary party organizations,
or cells. Party first secretaries of aymags and those of
the three autonomous cities, usually were represented on the
Central Committee. In addition to their key party organizational
responsibilities, these regional leaders had the important duty
to implement the party's economic policies and programs within
the areas under their supervision. In fact, active participation
in the current party programs emphasizing economic development
was regarded as essential to the regional leaders' success; this
probably explained their participation on the Central Committee.
Two other key posts, probably equal in rank to aymag first
secretaries, were held by leading party representatives in the
state Railroad Administration and the army's Political
Directorate.
Aymag-level and somon-level party organizations
are formed by election of the conferences of representatives
within the respective jurisdictions. These committees control the
executive and the legislative institutions of government as well
as economic enterprises. Meeting in plenary sessions at least
twice a year, the committees' regular daily business is conducted
by an elected bureau of seven to nine members. Bureau meetings
are held once or twice every fourteen days to hear reports and
recommendations, to discuss implementation of higher-level
decisions, to coordinate and to assign cadres' work, to approve
acceptance of candidate members, to assign cadres to non-party
organs in territorial units, to provide leadership to party cells
and to evaluate their achievements and shortcomings, and to
maintain party discipline within various subordinate
organizations.
The party cell is considered the primary party organization.
Every party member has to belong to a cell. These bodies exist in
industrial enterprises; agricultural cooperatives; state farms;
and educational, cultural, and other establishments. Cells are
formed from not fewer than eight party members or candidates for
membership. The cell's responsibilities include recruitment of
party members, training and ideological development of the
membership, and party discipline. When there are fewer than eight
members to be organized, a party section is formed; it has
responsibilities similar, insofar as possible, to those of the
party cell.
Data as of June 1989
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