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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 mountai ...
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political parties need to be registered with
Election Commission
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to contest
National Assembly
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elections. Political parties can only contest National Assembly elections, since being an
independent
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is a requirement for contesting
National Council and local government elections.
Besides the official registered parties that came into existence after the
democratisation of Bhutan, many Bhutanese parties have been operating in exile since the 1990s. Most of these parties are run by exiled people from the
Lhotshampa community from the refugee camps in Nepal.
Official parties
In Bhutan,
political parties need to be registered with
Election Commission of Bhutan to participate in
the Bhutanese elections.
Active parties
Deregistered parties
In 2018,
Druk Chirwang Tshogpa was deregistered by the Election Commission on its own request.
Other political parties
The following parties are all based in exile.
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Bhutan Democratic Socialist Party
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 ...
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Bhutan Gorkha National Liberation Front
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 mountainous ...
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Bhutan National Congress
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Bhutan National Democratic Party
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Bhutan National Party
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Bhutan Peoples' Party
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Bhutanese Movement Steering Committee
Bhutanese may refer to:
* Something of, or related to Bhutan
* Dzongkha, the official national language of Bhutan (sometimes called "Bhutanese")
* A person from Bhutan, or of Bhutanese descent, see Demographics of Bhutan
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Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist)
The Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist) (abbr. CPB (MLM)) is an underground communist party in Bhutan.
The CPB (MLM) aims to start a New Democratic Revolution and overthrow the Bhutanese monarchy and the House of Wangchuck. ...
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Bhutan Tiger Force
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Druk National Congress
The Druk National Congress was formed in exile in
Kathmandu
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Nepal
Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne,
सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...
on June 16, 1994.
On August 26, 2010, Bhutanese political parties in exile formed an umbrella group to pursue a "unified democratic movement led by Rongthong Kunley Dorji, President of the
Druk National Congress. The group's offices opened in Kathmandu in November 2010, and it seems to receive some measure of support from the
Nepalese government
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See also
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Politics of Bhutan
The Government of Bhutan has been a constitutional monarchy since 18 July 2008.
The King of Bhutan is the head of state. The executive power is exercised by the Lhengye Zhungtshog, or council of ministers, headed by the Prime Minister. Legisl ...
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Constitution of Bhutan
The 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 Constitution was thorough ...
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Lists of political parties
Lists of political parties include:
* List of agrarian parties
* List of banned political parties
* List of centrist political parties
* List of communitarian political parties
* List of fictional political parties
* List of frivolous poli ...
References
External links
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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 mountai ...
Political parties
Political parties
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 mountai ...