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The Mongolian National Democratic Party was the result the original group formed in opposition to the communist regime in 1989. By the 1993 presidential elections, they were working in union with the Mongolian Social Democratic Party. By 1996, this alliance was known as the Democratic Union (Coalition) and won the elections that year.
In 2000, the coalition broke up, with some MNDP members leaving to form the Mongolian Democratic Party and the Party of Citizens' Will and the MSDP leaving the coalition. After doing badly in elections during the year, the MNDP and MSDP disbanded and united with three smaller parties to form the Democratic Party. This new party adopted the flag of the MNDP and the logo of the MSDP.
For the 2004 elections, the Democratic Party was part of the Motherland Democratic Coalition, along with other groups including the New Socialist Democratic Party. These elections eventually resulted in a grand coalition government. Apparently the MSDP was reformed following a split in the Democratic Party after the elections.
I recently saw the Mongolian/German film "The Cave of the Yellow Dog", in
which a vehicle drives past the main characters encouraging them to "vote
the right way" and flying a fairly large flag.
I conclude that the flag depicted in the film and on our site was original
the flag of the MNDP, and now of the Democratic Party. Looking back in the
archives, Jairg's details concerning the MSDP were only a response to Al's
report of the flag from a Democratic Party candidate's website, so there
doesn't seem to be any sign that it was used by the MSDP. I suspect that
the photo in 2004 showed the flag used to represent the Democratic Party
rather than the Motherland - Democratic Coalition it was a large part of,
but I suppose it is possible that it was used to represent the Coalition
in general.
Sources:
http://ati.iblp.org/ati/students/opportunities/mongolia/documents/mongoliapoliti\cal02.pdf?show=true
Mongolia Political Background Report (mentions the adoption of the flag by the Democratic Party)
http://www.chriskaplonski.com/mongolia/parties.html Political Parties. Anthropology, Mongolia and more...
http://www.broadleft.org/mn.htm Leftist Parties of Mongolia, as cached by Google, 12 October 2006.
Jonathan Dixon, 21 November 2006
Mongolian People`s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) was the ruling party during the socialist period. After starting democratic reforms MPRP
maintains a strong base in the more conservative countryside.
In 2010 MPRP was renamed to Mongolia People's Party (MPP), but in that year the new Mongolian People`s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) was created and registered in 2011.
Victor Lomantsov, 5 January 2013
The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) founded on 1 May 1921 (as Mongolian People's Party, renamed to MPRP in 1924), the MPRP ruled the country from 1921 to 1990 as the single political party. The MPRP won the general elections in spring 2008, which caused demonstrations and riot in the country's capital.
Description of the former party flag: A blue field bordered on the ends with red vertical stripes approximately 1/6 the length of the flag fly. Centered on the flag is a red star and within the star a yellow circle with a ying-yang symbol.
Phil Nelson, 17 February 1999
... I assume that the party changed its emblem when moved from communist ideology (red star)
to a socialist one. The old flags was still in their web page about five years ago, then change can happen about 2000.
Jaume Ollé, 3 July 2004
image after Wikipedia by Ivan Sache
The symbols of Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) are described in the party's chart, adopted by the 25th Congress of the party, 22-28 October 2007, as follows:
Chapter 1. General principles and articles.
[...]
Article 2. The party symbol.
2.1. The MPRP has its own symbol and flag.
2.2. The MPRP symbol has a red rose symbolizing Mongolian "recipe" at its center. The Mongolian "recipe" symbolizes national solidarity and solidarity between senior, middle and young generations of the party.
2.3. The MPRP flag shall be in a vertical form with joint color of red, blue and red. The party symbol shall be placed on middle blue background which is in size of 1/3 of whole flag.
Source: http://www.mprp.mn/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=\93
by Ivan Sache and Tomislav Todorovic
Before the 2011 name change, Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party -
currently Mongolian People's Party - also used a flag with the ratio
2:1 (width larger than length), as shown here:
http://politics.news.mn/content/54983.shtml
Tomislav Todorovic, 5 January 2013
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (Mongolian: Mongol Ardyn
Huv'sgalt Nam) was founded in 2010 after a split in the Mongolian
People's Party (Mongolian: Mongol Ardyn Nam), by the members who
opposed the party name change and wanted to keep the old name, and was
registered next year [1]. The emblem of the new party is derived from
the one which the original party used before the name change [2]. The
flag is blue-white-green horizontal tricolor with width larger than
length (about 2:1), with the emblem in center of the white field [3,
4]. There are also three tongues with pointed endings, placed at the
top, center at bottom points of the fly edge, each in the color of the
field it is attached to; their length seems to be about the same as
that of the main body of the flag [5, 6, 7].
Sources:
[1] Wikipedia page about Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
[2] Party profile at Facebook -
image of party emblemhttp://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/...
[3] Party profile at Facebook -
photo of party flag: http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/...
[4] Party profile at Facebook -
photo of party flag: http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/548558_444297915596610_2050307975_n.jpg
[5] Times.mn website:
(Image: http://www.times.mn/images/stories/social/2012/05/dsc00027.jpg)
[6] Factnews.mn website:
(Image: http://factnews.mn/editor_imgs/sar04/IMG_3625ka.jpg)
[7] Sonin.mn website:
Image 1, Image 2, Image 3
by Tomislav Todorovic, 2 January 2013
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party found "Justice Coalition" with Mongolian National Democratic Party in 2012.
image after Officail Party Website
Mongolian People's Party is a former Mongolia People's Revolutionary Party. Renamed in 2010.
New flag and emblem shown at http://www.nam.mn/man/symbolism
by Yuri Pirogov, 31 December 2012
The new party name (in Mongolian: Mongol Ardyn Nam) is actually the
original one, which was used from its founding in 1920 to 1924, when
the name Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (in Mongolian: Mongol
Ardyn Huv'sgalt Nam) was adopted. The name change was not accepted by
a minority of party members, who broke away in 2011 to found a new
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, which subsequently adopted a
new flag and emblem, derived from those of the Mongolian People's Party.
Source for the info:
Wikipedia page about the Mongolian People's Party
by Tomislav Todorovic, 31 December 2012
Russian language page of official MPP site sais:
New party emblem and flag were adopted at XXVI Congress in January of 2011.
At the Congress delegates include Soyombo -, the national symbol of
independence - to their official emblem and flag.
"Flag of the Mongolian People's Party is made up of equal size tricolor red,
symbolizing the independence of Mongolia and national progress, white,
symbolizing justice, solidarity, and purity, blue, symbolizing the eternal
blue sky, the national state, and prosperity. The emblem of the party is in
the central part of the white field. The ratio of the flag is 2:1 in length
and width. Mongolian People's Party, a member of the Socialist
International, and as a center-left political party, has a red rose in the
emblem". Red rose representing the social democratic ideals.
by Victor Lomantsov , 5 January 2013
"Eh Oron" (Motherland) movement was founded in the spring of 1999 by businessman B.Erdenebat.
"Motherland - Democracy Coalition" (Eh Oron - Ardchilsan Evsel) was formed from "Eh Oron" and the Democratic Party in 2003.
In 2004 "The Civil Will - Republican Party" became part of coalition.
Victor Lomantsov, 16 March 2009
The flag of the Motherland Democratic Coalition is in a
1:2 ratio, just like the national flag of Mongolia. The blue side is
the hoist side, and it contains parts of the Mongolian flag symbol in
white.
Source: the photo from Reuters
Zachary Harden, 28 June 2004
... It is flag of Mongolian Democratic Party (MDP), which was a member of MDC in
2004.
Mashbat Otgonbayar Sarlagtay, 14 October 2006
I have seen many party flags in Ulan-Bator in June 11-13 2008 since they had general election. Democratic Coalition flag - a part of Soyombo (flame, sun and crescent) in pile
Nozomi Karyasu, 14 August 2008
by Victor Lomantsov and Tomislav Todorovic
I have seen many party flags in Ulan-Bator in June 11-13 2008 since they had general election.
Yellow running horse on blue flag. Party's name unknown
Nozomi Karyasu,, 14 August 2008
Yellow running horse on blue flag. This might be the flag of
Motherland Party (Eh Oron Nam), whose logo is the yellow running
horse, as can be seen here:
http://www.buryatmongol.info/buryat/phpwind/simple/index.php?t13124.html.
The party flag could not be seen on the Web so far, but the yellow
horse does sometimes appear on light blue background, as can be seen here:
http://www.mglradio.com/newforum/index.php?document_srl=583399
Also, according to W.Smith , light blue is Mongolian national color, so the whole design looks quite like the one which the party with such name might use.
Tomislav Todorovic, 30 April 2011
In 2000 the MNDP and MSDP united with three smaller parties to
form the Democratic Party. This new party adopted the flag of the MNDP and
the logo of the MSDP.
Jonathan Dixon, 21 November 2006
Party logos from:
1) official party website (2012)
2) http://www.mongolbbs.com/
3) http://www.21.gec.gov.mn/service
The Mongolian Social Democratic Party won no seats in the Mongolian Parliament in the elections of 2 June 2000, but things may alter dramatically after the dramatic winter. The MSDP was a principal organizer of the opposition hunger strike of April 13-25, 1994, and won 12 Great Hural seats in 1996. Radnaasümbereliyn Gonchigdorj was vice president of Mongolia from 1990 till 1997. (From: Political Handbook of the world 1997; and Fischer Weltalmanach
2001)
Jarig Bakker, 19 April 2001
I did notice some mistakes on Mongolian political party flags [at FOTW].
The flags of the Mongolian Social Democratic Party (MSDP) and
Motherland Democracy Coalition (MDC) are actually the same flag.
It is flag of Mongolian Democratic Party (MDP), which was a member of MDC in
2004. MSDP's flag was quiet different.
Mashbat Otgonbayar Sarlagtay, 14 October 2006
The flag appears on a photography published in "Courrier International" #421 (26 November 1998), to illustrate a paper originally published in "Far Eastern Economic Review" (Hong-Kong). The legend is "Official delegation and family members attending the funerals of Sanjanzurengiin Zorig, on 7 October 1998."
On the left side of the picture appears a partially rolled flag, something like vertically divided blue/red with a thin vertical white stripe in the middle
and a white emblem in canton (a triangle below two "rabbit ears"?). I tried to render it as mn-unk.gif. S. Zorig was a member of the Mongolian Democratic Union and
one of the leader of the democratic movement of 1990.
Ivan Sache, 10 December 1998
Perhaps the emblem in the canton was actually the partially visible logo of the
Mongolian Social Democratic Party (Mongolyn Sotsial Demokrat Nam),
which was inherited by the Democratic Party (Ardchilsan Nam) in 2000
and is still used by it meantime.
Tomislav Todorovic, 5 January 2012
image from official party website
Party logo from official party website (2012)
In 2000, the party merged into the Democratic Party. However, a new Mongolian Social Democratic Party was founded.by some of its old members and registered in 2005, as stated by the list of Mongolian political parties at Mongolian Wikipedia.
Its flag is light blue, with the main device of the party logo in center: a Socialist rose on white, in center of a white form with very dark blue edges, shaped like a "triangular Moebius band" (strange sounding description, but the best possible I could come up with), which is charged with party name initials over its bottom segment. The height of the emblem is two-thirds of that of the flag. The best view of the flag is on the photos from a gallery at the party website.
A slightly different variant of the flag, with the rose on light blue
and "triangular Moebius band" with inner light blue and outer white
edges, can be seen in a Picasa photo album.
Tomislav Todorovic, 26 January 2013
As can be seen, there are both horizontal and vertical variants of that flag.
Both of the above galleries are from 2005 or later. However, the party
was founded in 2004, as revealed by a Picasa photo album from that
year, which shows a different flag, charged with the pre-2000 party
logo in white on light blue field.
The logo on the flag differs from its standalone version, because its main device is composed of conjoined instead of interlaced strokes.
This flag is based on the one used by the party before the 2000 merger, which differed from the 2004 version in much darker shade of
blue, as shown in another Picasa album.
The photo showing multiple flags was printed in the cover of a booklet issued by the party.
The difference between the standalone version of the logo and the one
used on flags was the same at that time, as can be seen on the cover on another party booklet.
There is also a photo which suggests that the flag might have been charged with the
"interlaced" as well as with "conjoined" variant of the logo, but it
is not quite clear whether the object displayed on the wall is really
a flag or just a wall decoration. That logo was probably abandoned
before the party had been registered in 2005, because it was then used - and still is - by the Democratic Party.
Tomislav Todorovic, 26 January 2013
Mongolian National Democratic Party (1992-1999) - cofounder of Democratic Party
In 1992 I saw in mongolian newspaper "Mongol messenger" (#52, 29.12.1992) the same flag (but in black-white).
It was the flag of Mongolian National Democratic Party.
Victor Lomantsov, 21 April 2001
This is People's Revolutionary Party's propaganda
banner (?). The actual flag does not
have letters in the center but just blue, white, red (2:1:2) horizontal stripes
flag proportion is 1: 2, like national flag.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 14 August 2008;
"Ündesnii Shine Nam" actually means "National New Party" - as can be seen here:
http://www.buryatmongol.info/.../index.php?t13124.html
this is another party, not just another styling of the Mongolian
People's Revolutionary Party (Mongol Ardyn Huv'sgalt Nam).
Consequently, this is the National New Party's propaganda banner. It
is not known if this is also the design of the party flag, because no
images of it were seen on the Web so far.
Tomislav Todorovic, 30 April 2011
It is possible,
considering the design of the logo, whose larger and more detailed image is shown here:
http://202.180.216.30...id=5305.
The device in center is the Great White Standard which is mentioned in
the Article 12 of the Constitution of Mongolia (see FOTW page
mn.html).
Tomislav Todorovic, 30 April 2011
image from Mongol.News.mn
The party used a logo before the name change, as can be seen
here: Mongol.News.mn
Tomislav Todorovic,, 3 January 2012
In 2011 National New Party was renamed to Mongolian National Democratic Party
Mongolian National Democratic Party (Mongol Ündesnii Ardchilsan Nam), which was founded in 2005 as the National New
Party (Undesnii Shine Nam) and renamed in 2011.
Tomislav Todorovic, 3 January 2013
Mongolian National Democratic Party found Justice Coalition with Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party in 2012.
The flag of the Mongolian National Democratic Party.
Tomislav Todorovic, 3 January 2013
The confusing thing is that the device in flag canton looks like
a simpler soyombo (only flame, sun and moon), while the party logo
displays the Great White Standard, one of national symbols mentioned
in the Constitution, as shown here:
http://www.ulstur.mn/?p=3465 (Image: http://www.ulstur.mn...).
That image shows the logos of Mongolian National Democratic Party and
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party together, because they formed
the coalition for the parliamentary election in 2012.
Tomislav Todorovic, 3 January 2013
The Justice Coalition consists of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) and the Mongolian National Democratic Party (MNDP)
photo from http://www.infomongolia.com ...
Coalition logo shows the logos of Mongolian National Democratic Party and
Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party together.
Tomislav Todorovic, 3 January 2013
The Civic Will Party (Irgenii Zorig Nam) - was founded in March 2000. In 2001 it was conjoined with
Republican Party č became "the Civil Will - Republican Party".
Victor Lomantsov, 16 March 2009
Hereby, I send you the flag of Civil Will Party of Mongolia.
The party was founded in 2000 and considered the major
third party of Mongolian politics. The CWP symbol constitutes a white falcon with red star
in her heart flying in the blue sky. The party flag is white with its logo in the
center. This flag was not changed since the party's establishment in 2000.
Mashbat O.Sarlagtay, 16 November 2006
by Tomislav Todorovic (variant after Mashbat O.Sarlagtay image)
As can be seen here: http://www.chriskaplonski.com/mongolia/parties.html
Civil Will Party (Irgenii Zorig Nam) and Republican party (Bügd Nairamdah Nam) have split again
in 2004. Their logos can be seen here:
http://www.buryatmongol.info/buryat/phpwind/simple/index.php?t13124.html.
As can be seen here:
http://www.inet.mn/?vfile=5&vmet_id=36571&vmet_main=5001
(image: http://www.inet.mn/ispages/isimage/inetnews/wytai5/36571_63453.jpg)
and here:
http://electionsmeter.com/polls/civil-will-party
(image: http://cdn1.beeffco.com/files/poll-images/normal/civil-will-party_7752_1.jpg)
the party flag may be charged with versions of the logo either with or
without the party name initials in red.
Tomislav Todorovic, 30 April 2011
Republican Party was founded by Buyant Jargalsaikhan. In 2001 the Republican Party had merged with the Civic Will Party (and so for a time it was the Civic Will ? Republican Party) and split back off in 2004.
I have reconstructed the flag of Republican party after logo of "Gurav Dah Huchin" coalition (from mongolian pages of WIKIPEDIA)
Victor Lomantsov, 5 January 2013
after http://www.inet.mn/ispages/....
There is another variant, with the logo more similar to that of the
coalition, and striped part with reversed colors: http://www.inet.mn/...
Tomislav Todorovic, 5 January 2013
by Phil Nelson and Željko Heimer
This party advocates the continuing reforms in Mongolia
Phil Nelson, 19 November 1999
I have seen many party flags in Uran Bator in June 11-13 2008 since they had general election.
Green, white, green vertical three stripes with yin and yang in the center.
Party's name unknown
Nozomi Karyasu, 14 August 2008
Green, white, green vertical three stripes with yin and yang in the
center. This is the flag of Mongolian Green Party (Mongolyn Nogoon Nam).
It can be seen in news reports about the party, here:
http://www.olloo.mn/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=94038
and here: http://www.inet.mn/?vfile=5&vmet_id=36571&vmet_main=5001
The green-white yin-yang, used as the standalone emblem, is the party
logo. It is used as such at the party website: http://www.greenparty.mn/
Tomislav Todorovic, 30 April 2011
Another party flag replaces the yin-yang symbol with a large leaf; the party name is inscribed in green, along the top and bottom edges of white field. Its image can be seen at the Facebook party image gallery
It is not quite clear if it did replace the earlier party flag
completely, but is certainly out of use now, because the party has
merged with the Civil Will Party (Irgenii Zorig Nam) in 2012. The new
party, Civil Will-Green Party (Irgenii Zorig-Nogoon Nam) seems to use
different symbols, as shown here:
http://www.info.mn/news/...
Tomislav Todorovic, 3 January 2013
I think the situation is more complicated. You will see at these pages
http://www.21.gec.gov.mn/service
MNN and IZNN together. And MNN uses the yin-yang symbol as its own.
Yuri Pirogov, 4 January 2013
Perhaps part of the party members continued to operate independently?
Or a new party with the same name and symbols was founded? There seems
to have been a similar case: Mongolian Social Democratic Party has
merged with the Mongolian National Democratic Party into the current
Democratic Party, but there is now also a new Mongolian Social
Democratic Party, as well as a Mongolian National Democratic Party,
which previously bore another name.
Tomislav Todorovic, 4 January 2013
Mongolian Green Party has merged with the Civil Will Party (Irgenii Zorig Nam) in 2012. The new
party, Civil Will-Green Party (Irgenii Zorig-Nogoon Nam) seems to use
different symbols, as shown here:
http://www.info.mn/news/...
Tomislav Todorovic, 3 January 2013
by Tomislav Todorovic (variant 1)
by Tomislav Todorovic (variant 2)
Flag of the Civil Will-Green Party is green, with a dark blue triangle bordered in white, which is based in the hoist and extends up to the
midpoint of the fly edge. The triangle is charged with a white falcon. The design is probably chosen in order to incorporate elements of
flags of the Civil Will Party (white falcon on blue) and the Mongolian Green Party (green field).
Two variants of the flag, which differ in the shape of the falcon and
the aspect ratio, were found so far. Variant 1 has the aspect ratio
1:2 and can be seen here:
- http://www.unen.mn/... (Photo: http://resource.unen.mn)
- A large image of this flag can be found here:
- http://politics.news.mn ... (Image: http://resource.news.mn/politics/photo/...)
- Variant 2, with the aspect ratio about 3:5 and a different shape of
the falcon, can be found (numerous copies) here:
- http://politics.time.mn/... (Photo:
http://resource.time.mn/politics/photo/...)
- A large image of the flag, differing only in the aspect ratio, which is 2:3 there (not verified by any photos so far), can be found here:
http://vipnews.mn/content/12457 (Image: http://vipnews.mn/media/news/...)
Tomislav Todorovic, 6 January 2013
There is another party with its flag "Эрх Чөлөөг Хэрэгжүүлэгч Нам" from
http://www.shuud.mn ...
Yuri Pirogov, 5 January 2013
Party logo from: http://yesunerdene.essay.time.mn/content/3842.shtml
I have reconstructed the flag of Labor Party of All Mongolia after logo of "Third party Coalition" ("Gurav Dah Huchin") (from mongolian pages of WIKIPEDIA)
Victor Lomantsov, 5 January 2013
after HMHN Facebook gallery.
Lots of images of Labor Party of All Mongolia symbols at their Facebook gallery.
As shown there, they also seem to have both vertical and horizontal
tribands as their flags.
Tomislav Todorovic, 5 January 2013
Party flag (?)
Party logo from: http://yesunerdene.essay.time.mn/content/3842.shtml
Flag of Mongolian Social Democratic Youth Union (youth branch of MPP) reconstructed after photos at
http://www.namzh.mn/Photos.aspx
and http://www.namzh.mn/Photos.aspx
Victor Lomantsov, 5 January 2013
Flag of Mongolian Conservative Party from http://uls.mn/medee/1698
Yuri Pirogov, 5 January 2013
Logo (flag ?) of Mongolian Conservative Party from: http://www.sonin.mn/news/politics-economy/11016
Flag (?) of MHTN Party from:
http://khun.miniih.com/
Victor Lomantsov, 5 January 2013
Logo of Mongolian Traditional United Party from: http://www.infomongolia.com/...
by Tomislav TodorovicOn the flag, the logo is all white, on blue field. The flag is shown on numerous photos in the galleries at party Facebook profile:
-http://www.facebook.com ...63318
-http://www.facebook.com ...39475
There is also a vertical banner with pointed end, charged with the logo in the hoist and inscriptions in Mongolian script in the fly:
-http://www.facebook.com ...63318
The logo is sometimes also used in the same colors as on the flag:
-http://www.facebook.com ...39475
and may also be all blue, on white background:
-http://www.facebook.com ...39475
-http://www.facebook.com ...39475
Tomislav Todorovic, 27 January 2013