Ruling-party candidate Lai Ching-te has emerged victorious in Taiwan's presidential election, and his opponents have conceded after ballots were cast at thousands of polling stations in a tight three-way race. The result in Taiwan's presidential and parliamentary election will chart the trajec...
Hou Yu-ih, presidential candidate for the Kuomintang and mayor of New Taipei City (left) and his running mate Jaw Shaw-kong arrive to register their candidacy at the Central Election Commission office in Taipei, Taiwan, on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hou Y...
While China has called the exercises punishment for Taiwan's election result, the Democratic Progressive Party has now run the island's government for more than a decade, although the pro-China Nationalist Party took a one-seat majority in the parliament. As CBS News senior ...
Beijing has made its anger clear over Taiwan's elections held on Saturday, which saw Lai win the presidential race. Lai said Taiwan will cope with Chinese pressure "calmly" and continue to cooperate with "like-minded allies, including the U.S.," to maintai...
The country held its first democratic presidential election in 1996. A presidential election in January 2016 was won by Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party. Her party, strongly opposed by China and strongly supported by the Deep State, stresses "Taiwanization" as opposed to Chinese ...
Taipei’s election result has been extremely narrow. According to Wikipedia (as accessed today), Ke got 580,820 votes, compared with 577,566 for Ting Shou-chung (丁守中), his KMT competitor, and only 244,641 for the DPP contender. Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA) points out that ...
While China has termed the exercises punishment forTaiwan’s election result, the pro-democracy Democratic Progressive Party has now run the island’s government for more than a decade, although the pro-China Nationalist Party took a one-seat majority in the...
Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen is expected to continue her pro-growth policies on the self-ruled island after a decisive victory in the self-ruled island's presidential election on Saturday, an entrepreneur said on Monday.
I think they will be forced to be very careful. And also, the election result itself will probably strongly constrain the party and Lai as president as well because although he gained the most votes in the presidential race, it was a three-way race. And if you add up the vote shares ...
The winner of the Presidential election, the ruling pro-independence DPP, did not see a decisive victory, winning 40% of the vote. The conservative KMT—which has eventual reunification with China in its charter—came in second with a 33.5% share of the vote. The relatively new Taiwan People...