New government to take over by July

Thimphu, March 4: Bhutan plans to dissolve the current government by July this year to overtake by the new caretaker government until next year to make preparations for the elections.

The election commission has set July as the deadlines for registration of the parties. Government hopes that by July all serving ministers would resing to register their parties with the election commission. But those ministers who do not resign will continue to serve, however, not allowed to join the political parties.

The current National Assembly will be dissolved after the coming 87th session in June. The house is never dissolved or reformatted since its inception in 1953.

The new government will continue to function ad hoc until the formation of interim government to be led by chief justice three months before holding the general elections.

In another turnover, the members of the National Assembly will no more be called Chimis once it is dissolved.

The members of the new National Assembly or the lower house, to be constituted after 2008 election, will be called Thuemis or representatives from the constituencies. There will be 47 Thuemis. Bhutan News Service/Sangay Oendrey