Lobsang Sangay Harvard legal scholar will become the next prime minister of Tibetan government in exile, officials announced on Wednesday, a role that would make him take over the political leadership of the Dalai Lama.The result of the election of new members of Parliament and the Kalon Tripa (Prime Minister) has been declared today after the completion of vote counting and compilation of reports received from 56 local election commission.
The Dalai Lama has said he would release political affairs, but it remains a spiritual leader for Tibetan Buddhists. The changes are not written in the constitution of society, reversing the tradition of 300 years in which the high monk who heads the Tibetan government.
Nobel Peace Prize winner said, however, that in the 21st century it was the right thing for leaders to elected and become a representative. He also has suggested that negotiations with Beijing - who have been slandering the Dalai Lama on his vocal resistance to the Chinese government that ruled Tibet with an iron fist, will not be too complicated under other Tibetan government.
Sangay, a senior fellow at Harvard Law School with extensive experience in international law and conflict resolution, won the election by 27,051 votes out of 49,084 votes cast by tens of thousands of Tibetans around the world, which represents 55 percent of the total vote. Two other candidates for prime minister, Tenzin Namgyal Tashi Wangdi Tethong and each get 18,405 votes and 3173 votes, the chief election commissioner said Jamphel Choesang in the northern city of India, Dharmsala, where the exile is located.
Choesang said the new Prime Minister, however, will take over on August 15 after the expiry of the incumbent Prime Minister Dr S. Rinpoche, who also recently headed the committee of Parliament to amend the charter of Tibet for the transfer of power from the Dalai Lama to the new Prime Minister and other organs of the Parliament.
The term of House members will expire on 31 May, said Lobsang Choedak, a press official from the central government of Tibet.
Sangay said he would move to Dharmsala from Boston when he won the election. Still not clear when Sangay will take his place.
"On the one hand we will have the Dalai Lama, who has historical legitimacy and global popularity," he told The Associated Press in an interview in March. "And in the second, we have a democratic government is fully functional in exile. We showed China about that, if Tibetans are allowed to vote, they are able to form a stable democratic government."
Round of talks in a row between Chinese officials and representatives of the Dalai Lama has made no progress clear to unify the two sides together. Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama to find a way to separate Tibet from China, despite its claim to only run the government at a high level of autonomy under Chinese rule.
Tibetan community in exile in Dharmsala said there would be celebrating the election results on Wednesday while protesting the Chinese crackdown on Tibetan Buddhist monastery in the foothills of the Himalayas in western China's Sichuan province.
China occupied Tibet in 1950 and claims the region has been part of its territory for centuries, although many Tibetans, the language and ethnically distinct from China, said that they were effectively independent.
In 2001 the Tibetan parliament, on the advice of the Dalai Lama, Tibet in Exile to change the Charter to provide for direct election of Kalon Tripa by the people of exile. Kalon Tripa, in turn, nominate the other Kalon (member Kashag), and tried to get parliamentary approval for their appointment.
Born in northeastern India, Sangay has never lived in or visited Tibet, but he has appeared quite popular among young Tibetans, who seems to have chosen him.
Sangay has explained that he fully supports the formula of "middle way" the Dalai Lama of seeking "real autonomy" for Tibet under Chinese rule, not independence directly.
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