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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Neave Barker

Bhutan elects new government

Bhutan elects new government

One of the youngest democracies in the world, Bhutan has chosen a new government in the third election since 2008, the year voters first got to decide who leads their country.

The DNT party won a narrow victory over its main rival in the National Assembly, the DPT.

The once-secretive mountain kingdom was largely cut off from the outside world until the 1960s and only allowed television in the 1990s.

Al Jazeera's Neave Barker has more from Paro.

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