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Article: Bhutan makes it official: it's a democracy.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- March 25, 2008
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Byline: Mian Ridge Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
BABESA, BHUTAN -- In warm spring sunshine, hundreds of thousands of Bhutanese queued to cast their ballots in the world's newest democracy yesterday. The elections will transform this diminutive nation, squeezed between India and China, from a hereditary monarchy into a modern democracy.
By late Monday evening, the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) party had won the election, sweeping up 44 of the 47 seats in the new parliament. Turnout among the 320,000 registered voters was high, at nearly 80 percent.
"Provisional results suggest that the DPT has won by a landslide margin," says ...