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Line 20: The '''Druk Gyalpo''' ({{bo-textonly\|འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་}}; lit. '''Dragon King''') is the [[head of state]] of the [[Bhutan\|Kingdom of Bhutan]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.constitution.bt/TsaThrim%20Eng%20(A5).pdf \|title=Article 2: The Institution of Monarchy \|work=The Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan \|isbn=99936-754-0-7 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706162637/http://www.constitution.bt/TsaThrim%20Eng%20%28A5%29.pdf \|archive-date=6 July 2011}}</ref> In the [[Dzongkha\|Dzongkha language]], Bhutan is known as ''Drukyul'' which translates as "The Land of the Thunder Dragon". Thus, while Kings of Bhutan are known as ''Druk Gyalpo'' ("Dragon King"), the Bhutanese people call themselves the ''Drukpa'', meaning "people of Druk (Bhutan)". The current sovereign of Bhutan is [[Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck]], the 5th ''Druk Gyalpo''.<ref name=king>{{cite web \|url=http://www.bhutan2008.bt/en/node/104 \|title=A Legacy of Two Kings \|publisher=Bhutan 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215041151/http://www.bhutan2008.bt/en/node/104 \|archive-date=15 December 2010 }}</ref> He wears the [[Raven Crown]], which is the official crown worn by the kings of Bhutan. He is correctly styled "''Mi'wang 'Ngada Rinpoche''" ("His Majesty") and addressed "''Ngada Rimboche''" ("Your Majesty").<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.dzongkha.gov.bt/online/dictionaries/dz-en-dict/Contents/16-01-MI.html \|title=༈ རྫོང་ཁ་ཨིང་ལིཤ་ཤན་སྦྱར་ཚིག་མཛོད། ༼མི༽ \|trans-title=Dzongkha-English Dictionary: "MI" \|work=Dzongkha-English Online Dictionary \|publisher=Dzongkha Development Commission, Government of Bhutan \|access-date=2011-10-30 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729214437/http://www.dzongkha.gov.bt/online/dictionaries/dz-en-dict/Contents/16-01-MI.html \|archive-date=29 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.dzongkha.gov.bt/online/dictionaries/dz-en-dict/Contents/04-06-MNGA.html \|title=༈ རྫོང་ཁ་ཨིང་ལིཤ་ཤན་སྦྱར་ཚིག་མཛོད། ༼མང-༽ \|trans-title=Dzongkha-English Dictionary: "MNGA" \|work=Dzongkha-English Online Dictionary \|publisher=Dzongkha Development Commission, Government of Bhutan \|access-date=2011-10-30 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120802033232/http://www.dzongkha.gov.bt/online/dictionaries/dz-en-dict/Contents/04-06-MNGA.html \|archive-date=2 August 2012}}</ref> King Jigme Khesar was the second-youngest reigning monarch in the world<ref>{{cite news \|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20081106-jigme-khesar-namgyel-wangchuck-youngest-king-world-bhutan \|title=Himalayan state crowns youngest king in the world \|publisher=[[France 24]] \|date=6 November 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131071911/http://www.france24.com/en/20081106-jigme-khesar-namgyel-wangchuck-youngest-king-world-bhutan \|archive-date=31 January 2009}}</ref> when he ascended the throne on 6 November 2008 after his father, [[Jigme Singye Wangchuck]], abdicated the throne in his ~~favor~~favour.<ref name=king/> ==Duties and powers== Line 48: The Constitution provides substantive and procedural law for two paths of [[abdication]] for reigning monarchs: voluntary and involuntary. As stated above, the King may relinquish the exercise of Royal Prerogatives, and such relinquishment may be temporary. The Constitution provides that the King must abdicate the throne for ~~willful~~wilful violations of the Constitution or for suffering permanent mental disability. Either must be upon a motion passed by a joint sitting of Parliament. The motion for abdication must be tabled for discussion at a joint sitting of Parliament (presided by the Chief Justice of Bhutan) if at least ⅔ of the total number of the members of Parliament submits such a motion stating its basis and grounds. The King may respond to the motion in writing or by addressing the joint sitting of Parliament in person or through a representative.<ref name=Art2/> If, at such joint sitting of Parliament, at least ¾ of the total number of members of Parliament passes the motion for abdication, then such a resolution is placed before the people in a National Referendum to be approved or rejected. If the National Referendum passes in all the Dzongkhags in the Kingdom, the King must abdicate in favour of the [[heir apparent]].

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