Wangchuk Namgyel ( dz, དབང་ཕྱུག་རྣམ་རྒྱལ།; born ) is a Bhutanese educationist and politician who is the current Speaker of the National Assembly of Bhutan, in office since November 2018. He has been a member of the

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, since October 2018.

Early life and education

Namgyel was born on or . He graduated from the

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, India and received a degree of Master of Arts in History. He also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Education from National Institute of Education,

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Career

Professional career

Namgyel started his professional career 27 years ago. He was a former

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of four high schools and also served as the chief of school monitoring in the

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Political career

Namgyel is a member of

Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa ( dz, འབྲུག་མཉམ་རུབ་ཚོགས་པ།; Wylie: ''’brug nyam-rub tshogs-pa''; ), formerly the Social Democratic Party, is one of the five registered political parties in Bhutan. It was regist ...

(DNT). He was elected to the

as a candidate of DNT from Nyishog-Saephu constituency in the

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. He received 4,388 votes and defeated Chimmi Jamtsho, a candidate of

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. On 30 October 2018, he was nominated by DNT for the office of the Speaker of the National Assembly of Bhutan. On 31 October 2018, he was elected as the Speaker of the National Assembly of Bhutan. He received 30 votes against 17 votes of Ugyen Wangdi.

References

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