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It will also have to circumvent vehicle import restrictions to get the new vehicles The Bhutanese has found that the new incoming government after the 2013 general elections will have to spend up to Nu 52 mn to replace the Toyota Land Cruiser of the Prime Minister and 13 Toyota …

DCT President said that a condition to have attested graduation certificates in the primary round itself could disqualify DCT and other new parties With the National Council elections over political parties expect the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) to soon come out with the Election Notification giving the dates for …

As per a circular from the Ministry of Finance (MoF), the Prime Minister, outgoing Cabinet Ministers, Speaker of the National Assembly, Chairman of the National Council and the Opposition Leader will be allowed to keep their government duty Toyota Prados. In a separate government circular, the ministers will also be …

No women NC candidates elected In what came as a surprise verdict of the National Council (NC) Elections out of the 20 dzongkhags, only 6 incumbent MPs made it back, with the rest of the incumbent MPs losing their seats in the Upper House. The voter turnout this year is …

Drop in voter turnout compared to 53% in 2008 NC elections For the second time in history, people across the country voted 20 members to the National Council yesterday. Of the 379,819 registered voters 168,180 exercised their voting rights giving a voter turnout of about 45% at the national level. …

The Presidents of the five political parties wished the elected 20 National Council MPs including the 47 others that did not make it. While they congratulated the winners, they also took the time to thank the other candidates had played an important role during the election. Some of the Party …

As per the latest results from the Election Commission of Bhutan the winners are as follwos. In Trongsa Tharchen (33) won by getting 1862 Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) votes and 221 Postal Ballot (PB) votes leading to a total of 2083 votes. In Bumthang Nima (34) has won by securing …

With the political prospects of the Home Minister and Speaker already looking increasingly bleak due to the Gyelpozhing case, the Minister for Information and Communication, Lyonpo Nandalal Rai could join them due to his inability to get Audit Clearances. The MoIC Minister has seven pending Audit Memos and three supervisory …

In what has been an unexplored aspect of the Gyelpozhing case the current Speaker of the National Assembly Jigme Tshultim enjoyed a meteoric rise in his civil service career after the allocation of plots to influential people in Gyelpozhing. This happened in the presence of ministers in the cabinet that …

A Council member will be elected from each Dzongkhag next week on 23 April Five years ago the nation made history when it ushered in democracy that was given to the people and not forged through remnants of struggles and revolutionary upheavals. This year on the poll day for the …