Besides the official registered parties that came into existence after the democratisation of Bhutan, many Bhutanese parties have been operating in exile since the 1990s. Most of these parties are run by exiled people from the Lhotshampa community from the refugee camps in Nepal.[1]
In 2018, Druk Chirwang Tshogpa was deregistered by the Election Commission on its own request.[3]
In 2023, the Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party deregistered after years of low activity.[4] The party had failed to find a new leader after Neten Zangmo resigned the position in 2018.
On August 26, 2010, Bhutanese political parties in exile formed an umbrella group to pursue a "unified democratic movement led by Rongthong Kunley Dorji, President of the Druk National Congress. The group's offices opened in Kathmandu in November 2010, and it seems to receive some measure of support from the Nepalese government.[5]
