Overview
- Parliament finalized a package of 46 laws over a concentrated early‑July session, including a consolidated Social Insurance law that creates a multi‑layer pension system, new voluntary savings with state top‑ups, and transitional measures for informal workers.
- The Social Insurance amendments, approved in the plenary, increase pension payments for roughly 500,000 retirees by about 100,000–300,000 togrog in many cases and update how pensions are calculated to phase in wage‑based averages over ten years.
- Lawmakers also ratified international loan and project agreements to strengthen transmission and distribution networks and to buy medical equipment for seven health institutions, with repayment to be covered by utility tariff revenue and loan terms.
- Parliament confirmed several leadership posts that reshape oversight institutions, appointing N. Myagmar as General Election Commission chair by a 75‑of‑103 secret ballot and electing new standing committee chairs for environment and legal affairs.
- Officials marked the opening of the Hanhbogd 'Shar tsav' geopark and scheduled oversight actions after public scrutiny, including a joint inspection of a contested kindergarten in Khentii and a doctors’ petition to the President urging stricter tobacco and e‑cigarette controls.