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The small Himalayan country of Bhutan became the world's newest democracy Monday when voters cast ballots in the nation's first parliamentary elections.The Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party, viewed as the more royalist of two groups running for parliament, took 44 of the 47 seats, election commissioner Kunzang Wangdi said. The People's Democratic Party won the remaining three seats.
Turnout was more than 79 per cent of the 320,000 registered voters, Wangdi said. The results will not be official until Tuesday morning.
The vote ended more than a century of absolute monarchy in the mountainous land long known as a quirky holdout from modernity, allowing television and the internet only in 1999.
So it's sort of like Alberta. 
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posted 24 March 2008 09:13 PM
