For this week on “What’s on World Wide Campus?”, here’s today’s news about Tsai Ing-wen re-elected as president as rival Han Kuo-yu concedes defeat on Taiwan elections.
According to South China Morning Post, Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen won a second term on Saturday with a comfortable victory over Han Kuo-yu in an election that had been cast as a referendum on the island’s approach to Beijing.
Tsai, from the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), captured more than 8 million votes, trumping her major challenger, Han Kuo-yu, from the mainland-friendly Kuomintang by close to 3 million votes.
Han, the populist mayor of Kaohsiung, conceded defeat and offered his congratulations to Tsai about an hour after James Soong Chu-yu from the People First Party made his concession speech. Soong garnered less than 600,000 votes, far short of 5.5 million votes received by Han.
Just after 9pm Tsai’s vote total had passed 8 million, more than the 6.9 million she received when victorious in 2016.
The DPP also secured a sweeping victory in the island’s legislative elections, winning 61 seats compared with the KMT’s 38. The result means the ruling party will maintain its majority in the Legislative Yuan.
Read more article on South China Morning Post→ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3045693/taiwan-elections-tsai-ing-wen-re-elected-president-victory-over
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