Name Natsagiin Udval | Role Politician | |
Born 5 March 1954 (age 70) ( 1954-03-05 ) Political party Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party Books Angli-Mongol tolʹ bichig: eru̇u̇l mendiin udirdakhuin u̇g khelleg | ||
Natsagiin Udval (Mongolian: Нацагийн Удвал) is a Mongolian politician. She has been the secretary general of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from 2010. She is the country's Health Minister. She was a candidate for the Mongolian presidential election, 2013, being the first woman to do so. Udval supports former president Nambaryn Enkhbayar who is in prison on corruption charges.
Incumbent President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, candidate of Democratic Party won at 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.
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.