Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party

{{Short description|Bhutanese social democratic political party}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}

{{Use British English|date=November 2017}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party

| native_name = {{bo-textonly|འབྲུག་ཀུན་མཉམ་ཚོགས་པ།}}

| native_name_lang = dz

| abbreviation = BKP

| logo = Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party.png

| colorcode = {{party colour|Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party}}

| registered = 3 January 2013

| dissolved = 23 January 2023

| president =

| ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap|Social democracy{{Cite web|url =http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/pp/bkp/BKP_Charter(Approved_by_ECB).pdf|title =BKP Charter (Articles 4.1.4 and 4.1.8)|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20151222150109/http://www.election-bhutan.org.bt/pp/bkp/BKP_Charter(Approved_by_ECB).pdf|archive-date =22 December 2015|url-status =dead|df =dmy-all}}|Social progressivism}}

| position = Centre-left

| country = Bhutan

| headquarters = Thimphu

| symbol = Five Colourful Circles

| seats1_title = Seats in the National Assembly

| seats1 =

| website = {{URL|http://www.bkp.bt/}}

}}

The Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party (BKP; {{langx|dz|འབྲུག་ཀུན་མཉམ་ཚོགས་པ།}}, {{literal translation|Bhutan Everyone-Equal Party}}) was a social democratic political party in Bhutan. Its President from May 2017 to July 2020{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Dasho Neten Zangmo exits BKP |url=https://kuenselonline.com/dasho-neten-zangmo-exits-bkp/ |access-date=2022-05-15 |website=Kuensel Online}} was Dasho Neten Zangmo, who took over from Sonam Tobgay, the President from 2013 to 2017.{{Cite news|url=http://www.kuenselonline.com/dasho-neten-zangmo-is-bkp-president/|title=Dasho Neten Zangmo is BKP President|work=KuenselOnline|access-date=3 November 2017|language=en-US}} Neten Zangmo was provisionally replaced by vice-president Sonam Tobgay until a new party convention was held.

The BKP was favourable to same-sex marriage. It included the rights of LGBT+ people in its program for the general election of 2018.{{Cite web |date=2019-06-10 |title=Bhutan prepares to repeal its anti-gay laws |url=https://76crimes.com/2019/06/10/bhutan-prepares-to-repeal-its-anti-gay-laws/ |access-date=2022-05-15 |website=Erasing 76 Crimes |language=en-US}}

The BKP submitted a request to the Election Commission of Bhutan in January 2023 asking to dissolve the party, following the failure for several years to name a new party president and difficulties in finding candidates for the 2023 election.{{cite web |title=Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party (BKP) stands deregistered as a Political Party |url=https://www.ecb.bt/notification-on-bhutan-kuen-nyam-party-bkp-stands-deregistered-as-a-political-party/ |website=ECB |date=23 January 2023 |access-date=23 January 2023}}{{cite web |last1=Subba |first1=MB |title=Uncertainty over BKP's participation in 2023 election |url=https://kuenselonline.com/uncertainty-over-bkps-participation-in-2023-election/ |website=Kuensel |access-date=23 January 2023}}

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