including Taipei. And although these are local polls, there are weighty repercussions. The municipal elections are seen as a precursor to legislative elections next year and presidential elections in 2012.
Also, there could be desirous calculi coming to Tsai’s help, causing proponents of Taiwanese independence within the DPP to switch their support from Su to Tsai. With the presidential election still many months ahead, a number of DPP politicians, especially in the South, still present themselves...
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calling for the “complete reunification” of the island with the mainland and under the “one country, two systems” policy, a warning that its democracy risked being destroyed just like Hong Kong. Yang credited that speech for bolstering support for the DPP in the 2020 presidential election....
DPP’s Tsai to Run for Presidency:Another big news is of course DPP’s chairwoman Tsai Ing-Wen victory in DPP’s presidential candidate election and is now running for Presidency. So far the poll is positive, and there is indeed a chance that Tsai can win in 2012. But I don’t want...
presidential election debate in the US and Taiwan, the media would complete an instant poll in just one evening to measure public opinion. hkupop.hku.hk 例如,美國總統一年一度向國會發表國情咨文之後,以及在 美 國和 台灣總 統 候選 人進行辯 論 之後, 傳 媒都 會 立 即進 行民 意調查,一晚...
Her election to a second, four-year term came after the repression of pro-democracy protests in the nearby Chinese semi-autonomous region of Hong Kong solidified public opinion in Taiwan against moves toward accepting rule by Beijing. The sides split amid civil war in 1949 and Beijing ha...
However, when he finally sent the "Cross-Strait Agreement on Trade in Services," the main part of ECFA, to the Legislative Yuan for review in 2014, this helped launch the Sunflower Student Movement which attempted to revoke the agreement, just two years after the 2012 presidential election. ...
he had only gotten 39% in the presidential election. The KMT only lost that election because it was internally split, not because the DPP had beaten it. Moreover, the KMT had never lost a legislative election. In the aftermath of the 2000 election, the KMT could tell itself to just wait...