"Middle finger" award recipients

 

Khurelsukh Ukhnaa

New Year's speech by the President of Mongolia, Khurelsukh Ukhnaa,  has been ignored by many Mongols (intentionally changing the TV channel) in protest of his unsatisfying job as President. Even though his position should be considered as symbolic as described in  the Constitution, and his power is very limited, many Mongols see this position very powerful and influential.  Mistakenly. In reality, he is a symbolic figure. 

Yet, he received a middle finger from the people of Mongolia, excluding of course the hardline fans of his party, the Mongolian People's Party (MPP), where he is from.

Zandanshatar G.

The second person who was awarded with the honor to receive a "middle finger" is the Speaker of the Parliament, Zandanshatar Gombojav. He is also from the MPP which is the ruling party now. The middle finger is the rating for his job as the Speaker and for the Parliament as a whole where the MPP represents the majority (62 seats of 76). 

The third person who is "lucky" to get this "middle finger award" was the Prime Minister of Mongolia, Oyun-erdene Luvsannamsrai, who is alumni of the Harvard Kennedy school (Wonder where he got the 70 thousand dollar tuition though. was he so rich?). Although he graduated a prestige school, he lacks experience and enough skills to run a government.

Oyun-erdene L.

Especially, his choices of people for important Government positions (ministers) has been not welcomed by the people. He picks people of very young ages for those positions which require not just a diploma of "western" education but lots of life experience and sufficient career background. In short, he hires "green horns" just because he or she graduated in the west and is  a member of his party. The consequences are fatal: his choices have been criticized by the public for their actions and decisions made. And laughed at. 

Overall, all three (and their party) have been harshly criticized for their actions, policies, and the results from them.  MPP is a former communist party, so there was nothing better to expect from it. Former communists cannot run the country, despite their claim becoming a social-democratic party. So, the new year 2023 will be a hard one for them, and I doubt if they can survive and hang on until the next election in 2024. Probably, they can, since they have become very rich in the past, so, money is the power, right? You can buy the poor people easily, for money, as they used to do in the past elections. We'll see.