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Yeshey Dem

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Yeshey Dem
Member of the National Assembly of Bhutan
Assumed office
31 October 2018
Preceded byPema Drukpa
ConstituencyKhamaed Lunana
Personal details
Bornc. 1993[1]
NationalityBhutanese
Political partyDruk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT)

Yeshey Dem (Dzongkha: ཡེ་ཤེས་ སྒྲོལམ།) is a Bhutanese politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Bhutan since October 2018.[2]

Education[edit]

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Language and Literature[3] from the Institute of Language and Cultural Studies, Bhutan.[1]

Political career[edit]

Before joining politics, Dem worked as a public relations assistant.[4]

She was elected to the National Assembly of Bhutan as a candidate of DNT from Khamaed Lunana constituency in 2018 Bhutanese National Assembly election.[5][6] She received 419 votes and defeated Dhendup, a candidate of Druk Phuensum Tshogpa.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Bhutan 2018 Elections". www.peldendrukpa.com.
  2. ^ "Hon. Yeshey Dem". www.nab.gov.bt. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. "ཆེད་བསྟོད་ཅན་གྱི་འཐུས་མི་ ཡེ་ཤེས་སྒྲོལམ།". www.nab.gov.bt. Archived from the original on 7 July 2019.
  3. ^ "NA Election 2018". kuenselnews.com.
  4. ^ a b "Seven women candidates of ten elected". Business Bhutan.
  5. ^ "A big win for women, Bhutan elects 7 of 10 women candidates". BBS. 19 October 2018.
  6. ^ "The women MPs in National Assembly". BBS. 30 October 2018.