Civil Will Party

Founding

From 1996 to 2000, Mongolia's first non-MPRP government underwent a series of political crises.^[6] On 2 October 1998, a leading figure of the 1990 revolution, sitting Minister of Infrastructure, member of parliament, Sanjaasürengiin Zorig, was murdered at his home.^[7] Zorig's sister, Sanjaasürengiin Oyun, ran for his vacant parliamentary seat in Dornod Province. She won the by-election and served as a member of the State Great Khural until 2000.^[8][9]

Prior to the 2000 parliamentary election, she and Zorig's former allies in the ruling Democratic Union Coalition split off to found the CWP on 9 March 2000.^[10] The party adopted Zorig's name, which literally means "Courage" or "Will." In the subsequent June elections, the party ran together with the Mongolian Green Party and secured a single seat in the 76-member parliament, coming in sixth place.^[8][11]

Following the landslide victory of the MPRP in 2000, the Democratic Union, which lost 49 out of its 50 seats, dissolved, and its former member parties merged into the Democratic Party.^[6]

Civil Will–Republican Party

In 2002, the CWP and the Republican Party (RP) merged and formed the Civil Will–Republican Party (CWRP) for the upcoming 2004 parliamentary election. The CWRP joined the opposition Motherland Democratic Coalition (MDC), composed of the Democratic Party and the Motherland Party, in July 2003. Shortly before the 2004 elections, the RP split off and fielded its own candidates.^[12] The MDC won 35 out of 76 seats, and the RP won 1 seat in the new hung parliament. Subsequently, a coalition government between the CWRP, the DP, and the MPRP was established.^[9] The MDC, however, was dissolved in late December 2004 after internal disputes regarding the 2005 presidential election. The CWRP, with its two seats, remained as a junior partner until January 2006, when the coalition government collapsed.^[13]

Despite the breakup with the RP, the CWRP still retained its name until its official dissolution on 15 January 2006, when the CWP was re-registered as a political party.^[2][12] Later in 2008, the Mongolian National Unity Party joined the CWP on 25 April.^[14] Along with the Mongolian Green Party (MGP) and an independent, the CWP secured a single seat in the 2008 parliamentary election.

In October 2011, the CWP was fully admitted as a member to the Liberal International. The party has been an observer of the Liberal International since 2007.^[15]

Civil Will–Green Party

Prior to the 2012 parliamentary elections, the CWP proposed an offer to the MGP to join together in 2010.^[16][17] During the 9th Party Congress on 26 March 2011, then-party leader of the MGP and member of parliament Dangaasurengiin Enkhbat accepted the proposal despite internal party disapproval of the idea.^[18][5] The full merger would not be official for a year due to the backlash from MGP members and supporters.^[19] The two parties officially merged into the Civil Will–Green Party and registered as a political party by the Supreme Court on 9 March 2012.^[2][1]

Presidential elections

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Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Result
2001	Luvsandambyn Dashnyam	35,425	3.60%	Lost N

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State Great Khural elections

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Election	Party leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Government
2000[c]	Sanjaasürengiin Oyun	36,193	3.62%	1 / 76	New	6th	Opposition
2004[d]		464,479	44.85%	35 / 76	1	2nd	Coalition government (2004–2006)
				2 / 76		4th	Opposition (since 2006)
2008		124,367	3.49%	1 / 76	1	4th	Opposition

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