Penpa Tsering Projected Winner in Race for Sikyong, Tibetan

Penpa Tsering Projected Winner in Race for Sikyong, Tibetan Exile Leader


Photo: RFA
Penpa Tsering, former speaker of Tibet’s exile parliament, looks set to win the vote for political leader, or Sikyong, of Tibet’s Dharamsala, India-based exile government the Central Tibetan Administration, final counting shows.
With votes counted in the U.S. on Friday, 33,924 ballots have now been cast for Tsering, compared with 28,595 cast for rival candidate Aukatsang Kelsang Dorjee, a former representative of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, according to unofficial counting by RFA.
Official results won’t be announced until May 14, but Tsering now leads with a comfortable margin of 5,329.
More than 83,000 Tibetans living in 26 countries around the world went to the polls on April 11 to cast their ballots in the third and final round of voting for Sikyong.

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