National Assembly (Bhutan)
Jigme Thinley's Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) Party won a landslide victory, securing 45 seats.The People's Democratic Party (PDP) won the other two,[1] but its leader, Sangay Ngedup, lost the election in his constituency.[2] Under the 2008 Constitution, Article 12, section 1, the National Assembly consists of a maximum of 55 members directly elected by the citizens of constituencies within each Dzongkhag (District).In the 2023–24 Bhutanese National Assembly election, both incumbent parliamentary parties failed to win seats.In 1971, King Jigme Dorji empowered the National Assembly to remove him or any of his successors with a two-thirds majority.
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