The United States called on Monday Bhutan's parliamentary elections, the first of its kind in its history, a "positive step" toward parliamentary democracy.
"This event ... marks another positive step in Bhutan's transition to a democratic, constitutional monarchy," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement.
Bhutan began its first official and democratic parliament election Monday morning to prepare to end its 100-year-old monarchy and ushering in parliamentary democracy.
The elections is the culmination of a plan by the fourth King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who handed his crown to his young Oxford-educated son Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in December 2006, to change with the times and relinquish absolute rule.
The former king had set the process in 2001 for Bhutan's transformation from an absolute monarch to a parliamentary democracy that led to the country having a new constitution.
Source:Xinhua
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