Dorji Wangdi (born 15 August 1969) is a Bhutanese politician who has been the leader of the
Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party
Druk Phuensum Tshogpa ( dz, འབྲུག་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་པ།; Wylie:'' 'brug phun-sum tshog-pa''; translation: Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party; abbr. DPT) is one of the major political parties in Bhutan. It wa ...
since 2020, and a member of the
National Assembly of Bhutan
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Current National Assembly
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, since 2008. He is currently the Opposition Leader of Bhutan after the resignation of
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 Nat ...
Sherubtse College
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, Bhutan. He completed his
Master of Business Administration
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from
Maastricht School of Management
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, Netherlands.
Political career
Wangdi was elected for the first time to the
National Assembly of Bhutan
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from Panbang constituency in
2008 Bhutanese National Assembly election
National 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 the elections; Druk Phuensum Tshogpa, led by Jigme Y. Thinley, which was formed by t ...
on DPT seat and received 2,217 votes.
He was re-elected to the
National Assembly of Bhutan
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as a candidate of DPT from Panbang constituency in the
Jigme Thinley
''Lyonpo'' Jigme Yoser Thinley (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་འོད་ཟེར་འཕྲིན་ལས་; Wylie:'' 'Jigs-med 'Od-zer 'Phrin-las'') (born 9 September 1952) is a Bhutanese politician who was Prime Minister of Bh ...
's cabinet.
He was elected for the third time as a candidate of DPT to the
National Assembly of Bhutan
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from Panbang constituency in
2018 Bhutanese National Assembly election
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 Democratic Party of former Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay came third in the first round of ...
. He received 2,984 votes and defeated Tshering, a candidate of DNT.