Yeshey Dem ( dz, ཡེ་ཤེས་ སྒྲོལམ།) is a Bhutanese politician who has been a member of the

National Assembly of Bhutan The National Assembly is the elected lower house of Bhutan's bicameral Parliament which also comprises the Druk Gyalpo (Dragon King) and the National Council. It is the more powerful house. Current National Assembly The current National As ...

, since October 2018.

Education

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Language and Literature from the Institute of Language and Cultural Studies,

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 mountainous ...

Political career

Before joining politics, Dem worked as a public relations assistant. She was elected to the

as a candidate of DNT from Khamaed Lunana 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 ...

. She received 419 votes and defeated Dhendup, a candidate of

Druk Phuensum Tshogpa 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 ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dem, Yeshey 1993 births Living people Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa politicians Bhutanese MNAs 2018–2023 Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa MNAs Bhutanese women in politics