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Election in Bhutan
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
The Bhutanese king staged an election for the Bhutanese people to elect the overwhelmingly majority members of the party headed by Jigmi Kinley, the staunch supporter of the king on Monday, March 24, 2008. It was not a surprise the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa of Jigmi Kinley scored 44 seats out of 47 in the lower house. The state-run media called ‘Kuensel’ reported that eight-Nepali-speaking Bhutanese won the election.
The legitimacy of the election is questionable, as more than 100,000 Bhutanese refugees have been languishing in various refugee camps in Nepal. They are not only denied the voting rights but also rights to own their property in Bhutan, as the government of the Bhutanese king forcibly ejected them from Bhutan and expropriated their property in course of ethnic cleansing in Bhutan.
Some critics of the king say that the king has put up the election to cover up the misdeeds of the king, and to trick the international community to support the king despite his misdeeds of sending hundreds of thousands of Bhutanese as refugees to Nepal.
