Did the Dalai Lama took the decision on retirement owing to uncertainty over his successor?

DHARAMSALA: With the exiled Tibetan Parliament accepting formal proposal of the Dalai Lama's retirement from political responsibilities was, however, the question remains that the Dalai Lama took this decision owing to the uncertainty over choosing his successor.
Since the traditional practice and method of choosing the successor of the Dalai Lama is very long and painstaking as the priests have to find out and search for omens, portents and meteorological signs.The task of choosing successor to the Dalai Lama could take number of years. The traditional method of choosing the successor of the Dalai Lama could take 15 to 20 years which was a very long period, the uppermost question in the minds of the Tibetans was that what would happen to the Tibetan cause in the event of the vacuum created to find out or identify the next successor of the Dalai Lama was understandable.
Perhaps due to this, the Dalai Lama in order to dispel such uncertainty among the exiled Tibetans made the decision to announce retire and pave the way for transfer of power to the elected head of the exiled Tibetan government. The de facto Prime Minister of Tibet, Samdhong Rinpoche said that said that the Dalai Lama realizing the situation and all pros and cons set-up a political leadership in the form of exiled Tibetan administration in 2001 with the Prime Minister and members of the exiled Tibetan parliament being elected directly through elections with the exiled Tibetans living here and in other parts of the world take part in the voting exercise. Meanwhile, the deputy speaker of exiled Tibetan Parliamnet, Dolma Gyari said that efforts were being made to ask the Dalai Lama to assume some sort of advisory or mentoring role for the exiled Tibetan government.
She said that the redrafting committee would have likely 5 members which would present its report on the changes to be made in the Tibetan charter by April 11.