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More than 83,000 Tibetans living in 26 countries around the world went to the polls on Sunday to cast their ballots in a third and final round of voting for political leader, or Sikyong, of Tibet’s Dharamsala-based exile government the Central Tibetan Administration, with final results to be announced on May 14.
Penpa Tsering, a former speaker of Tibet’s exile parliament, and Aukatsang Kelsang Dorjee, a former representative of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, are the frontrunners in the current race after prevailing in two rounds of earlier voting.
In exit polls conducted by RFA with 961 voters in India, the U.S., Canada, and Europe, 547 said they had voted for Penpa Tsering, with 414 saying they had voted for Aukatsang Kelsang Dorjee, suggesting the race is close.
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