Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party

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Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party
འཐུག་ཀུན་མཉམ་ཚོགས་པ་
AbbreviationBKP
PresidentNeten Zangmo
Registered2013
HeadquartersThimphu
IdeologySocial democracy[1]
Political positionCentre-left
Seats in the National Assembly
0 / 47
Election symbol
Five Colourful Circles
Website
http://www.bkp.bt/

The Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party (Dzongkha: འཐུག་ཀུན་མཉམ་ཚོགས་པ་, BKP) is a social-democratic political party in Bhutan. Its current President since May 2017 is Dasho Neten Zangmo, who took over from Sonam Tobgay, the President from 2013 to 2017.[2]

The BKP is favourable to same-sex marriage. It included the rights of LGBTI people in its program for the general election of 2018.[3]

References

  1. ^ "BKP Charter (Articles 4.1.4 and 4.1.8)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Dasho Neten Zangmo is BKP President". KuenselOnline. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  3. ^ Bhutan’s lower house of parliament votes to decriminalise homosexuality