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    Elections in Bhutan are conducted at national (Parliamentary) and local levels. Suffrage is universal for citizens 18 and over, and under applicable election...
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    National Council of Bhutan National Assembly of Bhutan Bhutanese legislation Constitution of Bhutan Elections in Bhutan Politics of Bhutan List of legislatures...
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    of Bhutan List of political parties in Bhutan Elections in Bhutan 2008 Bhutanese National Assembly election 2013 Bhutanese National Assembly election 2018...
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  • political party in Bhutan to do so. On 1 September 2007 the Election Commission of Bhutan registered the party. The PDP tends to be more popular in the west...
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    National Assembly elections were held in Bhutan on 30 November 2023 and 9 January 2024. In the 2018 elections the previously unrepresented Druk Nyamrup...
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    previous ban on political parties in anticipation of the National Assembly elections in the following year. In 2008, Bhutan adopted its first modern Constitution...
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  • of slavery, and culminating in the enactment of Bhutan's Constitution. The first democratic elections in Bhutan began in 2007, and all levels of government...
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    Tibetan characters. Bhutan (/buːˈtɑːn/ boo-TAHN; Dzongkha: འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, romanized: Druk Yul [ʈuk̚˩.yː˩]), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་...
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    Assembly elections were held in Bhutan for the first time on 24 March 2008. Two parties were registered by the Election Commission of Bhutan to contest...
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    Constitution of Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་གི་རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་; Wylie: 'Druk-gi cha-thrims-chen-mo) was enacted 18 July 2008 by the Royal Government of Bhutan. The...
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    In Bhutan, political parties need to be registered with Election Commission to contest National Assembly elections. Political parties can only contest...
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    minister of Bhutan (Lyonchhen) is the head of government of Bhutan. The prime minister is nominated by the party that wins the most seats in the National...
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    National Assembly elections were held in Bhutan in 2018; the first round was held on 15 September and the second round on 18 October. The ruling People's...
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    of Bhutan. In the Dzongkha language, Bhutan is known as Drukyul which translates as "The Land of the Thunder Dragon". Thus, while kings of Bhutan are...
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    National Council elections were held in Bhutan on 20 April 2023. The 20 members of the National Council are elected from single-member constituencies...
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  • the year 2024 in Bhutan. 9 January – 2023–24 Bhutanese National Assembly election: Bhutanese people vote in the second round of the election for 47 members...
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    the 47 seats. The elections were the second general elections to occur in Bhutan since former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck ushered in democratic reforms...
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    mock election is for. As a way to introduce democratic elections in Bhutan, in preparation for the Bhutanese general election in 2008, a mock election was...
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  • phun-sum tshog-pa; translation: Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party; abbr. DPT) is one of the major political parties in Bhutan. It was formed on 25 July 2007...
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  • Bhutan is a Buddhist country by constitution and Buddhism plays a vital role in the country. The official religion in Bhutan is Buddhism, which is practiced...
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    The Kingdom of Bhutan is divided into 20 districts (Dzongkha: dzongkhags). Bhutan is located between the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and India on...
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    government body. Bhutan comprises 205 gewogs, which average 230 km2 (89 sq mi) in area. The gewogs in turn are divided into chewogs for elections and thromdes...
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    Economic development in the country of Bhutan has increased opportunities for women to participate in fields such as medicine (both as physicians and nurses)...
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    Tourism in Bhutan began in 1974, when the Government of Bhutan, in an effort to raise revenue and to promote Bhutanese unique culture and traditions to...
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    Bhutan-China relations refer to the international relationship between the Kingdom of Bhutan and the People's Republic of China. As of March 2024, Bhutan...
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    Energy in Bhutan has been a primary focus of development in the kingdom under its Five-Year Plans. In cooperation with India, Bhutan has undertaken several...
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    The National Council is the upper house of Bhutan's bicameral Parliament, which also comprises the Druk Gyalpo (Dragon King) and the National Assembly...
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  • This is a list of elections that are set to be held in 2024. 2024 United Nations Security Council election 2024 national electoral calendar 2024 local...
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    Villages in Bhutan are made up of groups of individual settlements, grouped together by chiwog for election purposes. This list is based mainly on information...
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    languages are also spoken along Bhutan's borders and among the primarily Nepali-speaking Lhotshampa community in South and East Bhutan. Chöke (or Classical Tibetan)...
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