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On September 4 2009 Ashton announced his candidacy to succeed  Gary Doer  as leader of the  Manitoba  NDP .
 employee of: Gary Doer, Manitoba
Given a phrase that describes the relationship between two words, extract the words and the lexical relationship between them. The output format should be "relation1: word1, word2; relation2: word3, word4". 
Option: cities of residence, top members employees, members, alternate names, origin, state or provinces of residence, title of person, spouse, city of headquarters, NA, founded by, state or province of headquarters, employee of, countries of residence, country of birth, founded, subsidiaries, country of headquarters 
Text: {0} 
Answer:
 employee of: Gary Doer, Manitoba