Overview

• Lawmakers opened plenary debate on the 2026 budget, then the Democratic Party caucus secured up to a three‑day recess after alleging ATG investigators entered and filmed inside S. Ganbaatar’s office in the State Palace.
• The Monetary Policy Committee held the policy rate at 12% on September 16, with an MPC member citing weak export inflows, currency pressure and an expansive fiscal stance as reasons not to ease.
• Ulaanbaatar officials detailed winter air‑quality measures, including HOTULA mobile virtual fuel cards and linking briquette sales to functioning carbon‑monoxide sensors, with sales potentially denied to households whose sensors are inactive.
• City data show 32,484 tonnes of midling briquettes were stocked in 24 warehouses as of September 8, semi‑coke briquettes will be sold at around 5,000 MNT per 25‑kg bag at 400 points, and authorities plan 340,000 tonnes of supply this season including 306,000 tonnes of imported semi‑coke.
• The city targets insulating 51,080 households in 2026 and expanding cleaner heating, while a district court ordered the release of E. Temuulen and L. Altan‑Ochir from pretrial detention with travel and contact restrictions.