After a timely intervention by His Majesty the King and members of the National Council, Bhutan will not witness an interim gup election in December, instead the terms for the incumbent gups will be extended until the local government elections in 2008.
Observers reason that His Majesty’s suggestion through the royal Kasho on December 9 and the National Council members’ report to His Majesty, the prime minister and the National Assembly speaker, were timely because some gewogs were set to hol...