Lamjavyn Gündalai

Lamjavyn Gündalai (; born 12 November 1963) is a Mongolian politician. He was thrice elected as a member of the State Great Khural in 2000, 2004 and 2008 from his native Khövsgöl Province. Gündalai served as Minister of Health from January 2006 to January 2007.

Early life and education Gündalai was born as the eighth child in Khatgal, Khövsgöl Province, on 12 November 1963. He graduated as a top student from his local secondary school and from his province in 1982. He studied medicine at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany from 1984 to 1991. Gündalai would later become the founder of the GMET LLC and Batsarai companies. He returned to Mongolia in 1996.

Gündalai was re-elected from his home provice, Khövsgöl, in the 2004 parliamentary election. The Motherland Democratic Coalition (MDC), led by the DP, won 35 out of 76 seats, whilst the rival MPRP won 37. A hung parliament was convened, and a coalition government was formed between the MDC and the MPRP. In late 2005, after disagreements with the Democratic chairman and prime minister Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Gündalai founded his own party, the People's Party , with a party structure, allegedly modeled after the political structure of the Great Mongol Empire.

Prior to the 2008 parliamentary election, Gündalai left the People's Party and rejoined the DP. He was again elected as MP from the 17th Khövsgöl constituency, and was one of the two Democratic MPs to be elected from Khövsgöl on 29 June 2008.

In October 2011, during a state visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Gündalai greeted Merkel in the Government Palace and cheek-kissed her.

After disagreements with the DP leader, Gündalai broke off for a second time and founded the "Love the People Party" in 2015. His party was officially registered by the Supreme Court of Mongolia on 26 June 2015. In November 2023, the party changed its name to the People's Power Party . He failed to be elected as a member of parliament in 2016, 2020, and 2024, by only a few hundred votes.

Personal life Gündalai is married to Lamjavyn Azzaya and has three daughters. He was previously married to Tsatsaa and had a daughter and a son, who studied in the United Kingdom.

He is able to speak in English and in German. As of October 2025, Gündalai is considered to be the most-followed Mongolian politician on social media. He currently has around 910,000 followers on Facebook.