{"product_id":"1993-mongolia-first-presidential-election-p-ochirbat-end-the-transition-period-campaign-badge-rare-original-issue","title":"1993 Mongolian First Presidential Election P. Ochirbat “End the Transition Period” Campaign Badge – Rare Original Issue","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal Item – Only One Available. A rare original 1993 presidential campaign badge for Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat, produced for Mongolia’s historic first nationwide direct presidential election under the democratic constitutional order. The election was held on 6 June 1993, following the adoption of the new Constitution and the country’s transition from the Mongolian People’s Republic to modern Mongolia. Ochirbat stood as the joint candidate of the Mongolian National Democratic Party and Mongolian Social Democratic Party, facing Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party candidate Lodongiin Tudev, and won the election with 57.8% of the vote. The badge carries the campaign phrase associated with Ochirbat during this formative period: “End the transition period. Reverse the decline in living standards.” The slogan became one of the best-remembered political phrases of Mongolia’s early democratic transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe badge itself is a striking piece of early post-socialist political ephemera, built around a photographic portrait of P. Ochirbat in formal dress against the red-and-blue Mongolian national flag and large gold Soyombo. Beneath the portrait appears the complete two-line campaign slogan together with “President of Mongolia P. Ochirbat” and his signature. Unlike the enamel state and institutional badges of the preceding MPR period, this election piece uses a printed rectangular portrait format with a simple horizontal pin fastening applied to the reverse. The present example remains complete and highly legible, with visible surface scratches, age lines and honest wear to the printed face consistent with an original badge that was actually handled or worn during the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the specialist collector, this badge is important because it survives from a single defining political campaign rather than from Mongolia’s permanent state-award system. Ochirbat had already served as president under the preceding transitional arrangements, but the 1993 contest was the first occasion on which Mongolian citizens elected their president directly by nationwide popular vote, making material from that campaign especially significant to the history of Mongolia’s democratic transformation. The combination of Ochirbat’s portrait, his original 1993 campaign slogan, the Mongolian flag and his printed presidential signature gives this piece a remarkably complete connection to that election. For collections centered on modern Mongolian history, democratic-transition material, presidential memorabilia, political campaign badges or post-socialist ephemera, this is a rare and historically evocative original from Mongolia’s first direct presidential election.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mongolia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52817382539576,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/1256\/7096\/files\/IMG_1161.jpg?v=1786992195","url":"https:\/\/khanmilitaria.com\/products\/1993-mongolia-first-presidential-election-p-ochirbat-end-the-transition-period-campaign-badge-rare-original-issue","provider":"KhanMilitaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}