Friday 25 May 2007

Bhutan

“They are quite anxious. They have enjoyed the prosperity, the happiness, under the kings. This is an irreversible process our king has initiated, we just can’t go back.”

Electoral candidate Lekey Dorji on the Bhutanese people’s reluctance to be governed by a democracy, quoted by Steve Herman, “Bhutan Continues Dry Run Towards Democracy”, 22nd May 2007, VOAnews.com, via Theodore Harvey, Royalty and Monarchy.

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