Druk Phuensum Tshogpa
| Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) Druk Phuensum Tshogpa |
|
|---|---|
| Emergence | Merger of the BPUP and APP |
| founding | July 25, 2007 |
| Alignment | Monarchist |
| Colours) | brown |
| Tshogdu |
2013 15/47 |
| Website | DPT.bt |
The Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) ( Bhutanese : འབྲུག་ ཕུན་ སུམ་ ཚོགས་ པ / Wylie : 'brug phun-sum tshog-pa , German Bhutanese party for peace and prosperity ) is a party in Bhutan that has been in existence since the introduction of Parties in 2007 in the Tshogdu , the lower house of Bhutan's parliament Chi Tshog . From 2008 she provided the government.
background
The then still absolute monarchy of Bhutan had only introduced the first form of permanent popular participation in 1953 with the Tshogdu . Their Chimis, called MPs, could not be directly elected and were also not allowed to form political parties. The final transition to a constitutional monarchy was to take place with the first general, secret and especially direct election in the history of Bhutan in 2008. In advance, the party ban was lifted by royal decree. The Democratic People's Party ( People's Democratic Party , PDP) under the leadership of former Prime Minister Lyonpo Sangay Ngedup was the first political party was established in Bhutan.
founding
In July 2007, the Bhutan United Peoples Party (BPUP) and the All Peoples Party (APP) merged to form Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT), which was led by former Prime Minister Lyonpo Jigme Y. Thinley . After the two newly formed parties committed to the constitution of Bhutan, the electoral commission registered the DPT and the PDP as parties for the first general election on March 24, 2008.
Election results
The royalist DPT won the first free parliamentary elections in Bhutan in 2008 . It won 45 of the 47 seats and provided the government.
In the second parliamentary elections in Bhutan in 2013 , however, the DPT lost two thirds of its seats to the PDP and was in the opposition with 15 of the 47 seats.
In the 2018 primaries on September 15, 2018, the DPT prevailed with 30.9 percent and pushed the governing party PDP into third place with 27.4 percent. Under Bhutan's electoral system , only the two strongest parties were allowed to participate in the second round of voting.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Druk Phuensuim Tshogpa, the new party in town. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 23, 2011 ; accessed on October 11, 2018 .