The Election Commissioners of the Tibetan Government-in-exile have announced the list of final candidates for the election of Sikyong and the 16th Tibetan Parliament, which will be held on March 20, 2016.
The Chief Election Commissioner said, “as per the electoral rules and regulations, we have shortlisted two candidates for the final election of Sikyong 2016.”
Regarding the election of parliamentarian members, he said that as per the rules and regulations, they’ve shortlisted twice the stipulated seats for each constituency in addition to the voluntary candidates. Twenty candidates plus one volunteer candidate for Utsang, twenty candidates each for Dotoe and Domey constituencies and four candidates each for the four school of Tibetan Buddhism and Bon religion were announced. For the constituencies of Europe, North America and Australasia, EC announced four candidates each with two volunteer candidates for North America and one volunteer candidate for Australasia.
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