Bhutan’s Election Commission on 14 July 2013 formally announced that
the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) won the National Assembly elections
by having secured a majority of thirty two seats. The Druk Phuensum
Tshogpa (DPT) won fifteen seats and was elected as the opposition
party. Over 66 per cent turnout was recorded in the elections. The
foremost election issues were rising fuel prices and credit crunch.
The second parliamentary elections saw a keen voter turnout. While
nineteen international media personnel from India, Netherlands, South
Korea covered the elections while 279 media personnel from Bhutan cover
the Second Parliamentary Elections this year.
In 2008, the DPT had won the election by a landslide and won the
first round of this year's polls with 45 percent of the vote. Bhutan's
king had given up the monarchy's centuries-old absolute power in 2008
and allowed the introduction of democracy to the Himalayan kingdom.
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