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Exiled Tibetans to elect government in vote condemned by China
Tibetans living outside China are voting for their government-in-exile. This election holds great importance as they face a future without their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. The Central Tibetan Administration, based in India, is a crucial institution for these exiles. Voters across 27 countries are participating.
Bylakuppe, Tibetans outside Chinese control vote on Sunday for a , an election of heightened significance as they brace for an inevitable, eventual, future without their revered spiritual leader, the .
The India-based (CTA) -- condemned by China as "nothing but a separatist political group" -- is a key institution for the exiles, especially after the Dalai Lama handed over political power in 2011.
"Our votes matter," said Tenzin Tsering, 19, a first-time voter waiting to cast his ballot to push for greater youth representation.
"We need voices that reflect where our community is going, not just where it has been", he said, speaking in Bylakuppe in India's southern state of Karnataka, one of the largest Tibetan communities outside the Himalayan plateau.
Polling is due to take place in 27 countries -- but not China.
The 91,000 registered voters include Buddhist monks in the high Himalayas, political exiles in South Asia's megacities and refugees in Australia, Europe and North America.
The 90-year-old Dalai Lama, based in India since fleeing the Tibetan capital Lhasa after Chinese troops crushed an uprising in 1959, insists he has many more years to live.
But supporters of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate are acutely aware that self-declared atheist and Communist China said last year that it must approve the Buddhist leader's eventual successor.
The Dalai Lama says only his India-based office has that right.
Tibetan Buddhists believe he is the 14th reincarnation of a spiritual leader first born in 1391.
- 'Potential of young Tibetans' -
The five-year parliament, which sits twice a year, has 45 members from across the world: 30 representing three traditional provinces, 10 representing five religious traditions and five representing the diaspora.
Headquartered in Dharamsala in northern India, it functions as a representative body for an estimated 150,000 Tibetans living in exile worldwide.
Lines of red robed monks and nuns lined up to vote in the Indian hill town on Sunday.
The government's "sikyong", or leader, Penpa Tsering, was elected for a second term on February 1, after taking 61 percent in the preliminary round -- a high enough threshold to win outright.
Tsering, like the government, does not seek full independence for Tibet, in line with the Dalai Lama's long-standing "Middle Way" policy seeking autonomy.
Exiled voters represent only a fraction of ethnic Tibetans -- whom the CTA estimates at six million worldwide, compared with more than seven million China counted in its 2020 census.
Beijing, which in 1950 sent troops to the vast high-altitude plateau it calls an integral part of China, has condemned the elections as a "farce".
Its foreign ministry calls the exiled government an "illegal organisation that completely violates the Chinese constitution and laws".
Among younger voters, some were worried at the perceived underrepresentation of Tibet's next generation in the corridors of the exile government.
"I want to see fresh faces, leaders who represent the potential of young Tibetans," said 25-year-old Tenzin Pema, expressing her weariness at the sometimes divisive arguments between older political leaders.
More than half of voters, about 56,000, live in India, Nepal and Bhutan.
The remaining 34,000 are scattered around the world, including roughly 12,000 in North America -- including New York and Toronto -- and 8,000 in Europe, including Paris, Geneva, Zurich and London.
Results are expected on May 13.
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