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TIBET | After the Dalai's farewell
Lobsang Sangay, days before the start of the election campaign. | Reuters
Lobsang Sangay, of 43 years old and professor at the American University of Harvard, has been elected prime minister of the Tibetans in exile, with the 55% of the almost 49.200 votes cast (Outside their country they currently reside near 140.000 Tibetans). "Es el mejor resultado logrado nunca por un primer ministro", the head of the Electoral Commission has pointed out, Jampal Chosang.
Sangay takes on the difficult task of becoming the political leader of Tibet, that for decades the Dalai Lama has embodied, to fight for greater autonomy under Chinese occupation.
The Dalai Lama's goodbye opened a electoral process, which ended this Wednesday, para elegir a su "kalon tripa" the prime minister, position for which three candidates are running.
The community of Tibetans in exile chose among the candidates Kasur Tashi Wangdi (representative of the Dalai Lama in Brussels), Lobsang Sangay, o Tenzin Tethong . These last two university professors in the US.
Tenzing Tethong, former representative of the Dalai Lama in New York and Washington, got a 37,4% of the votes cast, while Tashi Wangdi, who had half a dozen ministerial portfolios in the government in exile in recent years has obtained only the 6,4% of the votes.
Various Indian and international media have assured that Sangay will assume at least part of the functions that the Dalai Lama has carried out until now., although the process is still pending the decision of Parliament and, in your case, a reform of its Magna Carta.
El nuevo 'kalon tripa', who has never lived in his land, will be sworn in after 15 of August, once the term of the current prime minister ends, Professor Samdhong Rinpoche. Like the Dalai Lama, Branch does not demand an independent Tibet: is satisfied that the Chinese authorities accept religious freedom and respect for human rights.
In the elections held last 20 March, The voters also elected the 43 deputies who will form the new Parliament in exile. Thubten Wangchen, director of the House of Tibet in Barcelona, He is one of the two representatives assigned to Europa.
He Dalai Lama, of 75 years, announced in March his intention to abandon his political duties, without abandoning his role as spiritual leader. The Tibetan government in exile is not recognized by any country in the world.
