Bhutan’s People’s Democratic Party wins election to return to power

A polling officer puts the indelible ink mark on the finger of a Bhutanese woman in Rikhey village, Bhutan on Tuesday (Anupam Nath/AP)

The People’s Democratic Party won the most seats in Bhutan’s parliamentary elections on Tuesday and will form the new government as residents hope politicians make good on promises to fix the economic crisis in the Himalayan nation.

Latest figures from the Bhutan Broadcasting Service, a national broadcaster, showed the PDP had won 30 of the 47 National Assembly seats to return to power, and the Bhutan Tendrel Party had secured 17.