Druk Phuensum Tshogpa ( dz, འབྲུག་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པ།;
Wylie:'' 'brug phun-sum tshog-pa'';
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: Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party;
abbr.
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DPT) is one of the major political parties in
Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...
. It was formed on 25 July 2007 as a merger of the
All People's Party and the
Bhutan People's United Party, which were both short-lived. The working committee of the merged entity, headed by the former home minister,
Jigmi Yoezer Thinley, decided on the name for the new party. On 15 August 2007, Jigmi Yoezer Thinley was elected president of the party, and the party applied for registration, thus becoming the second political party in Bhutan to do so. On 2 October 2007, the Election Commission of Bhutan registered the party. On 24 March 2008, the party won the
first general election held in Bhutan. The party secured 45 of the 47 seats to the National Assembly. The party tends to be more popular in the east of the country.
2013 election
In the 2013 general election, while the DPT secured 15 seats, it lost the position of ruling party. In this election,
People's Democratic Party People's Democratic Party or ''variant thereof'', could refer to:
* People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
*People's Democratic Party (Belize)
*People's Democratic Party (Bhutan)
* People's Democratic Party (Chile)
*People's Democratic Party (Dom ...
won 32 seats and became the ruling party. In July 2013 Jigme Thinley submitted the resignation for the Member of National Assembly before beginning its Legislative Session. So on 24 July of the same year
Pema Gyamtsho
Pema Gyamtsho (Dzongkha: པདྨ་རྒྱ་མཚོ།, Wylie: pad+ma rgya mtsho, born in 1961) is a Bhutanese politician who served as the Second Party President of the Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party and Opposition Leader in the Natio ...
, who is a former Minister of Agriculture and Forest, was appointed the Opposition Leader in NA for the Second Legislative Session. On 3 December same year he was also elected as the new DPT’s Party President.
OL, the new DPT president
BBS, 4 December 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
Election Results
See also
*List of political parties in Bhutan
In Bhutan, political parties need to be registered with Election Commission to contest National Assembly elections. Political parties can only contest National Assembly elections, since being an independent is a requirement for contesting Nation ...
* Bhutanese election 2018
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