Saturday, January 16, 2016

Taiwan elects Tsai Ing-wen as first female president. Chu became his party’s candidate only three months before election day

Taiwan elected 59-year-old Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party as the island’s first female president on Saturday, ousting the Nationalists from the presidential palace after a campaign that hinged on issues of relations with mainland China, the slowing economy, government transparency and social justice.

Promising to end the “old politics of intimidation and confrontation” and usher in a “new era,” Tsai, a lawyer-turned-politician who earned advanced degrees in the United States and England, defeated the Nationalist Party’s Eric Chu with about 60 percent of the vote, with half of the ballots counted. 


 Chu became his party’s candidate only three months before election day, after the Nationalists dumped their initial nominee, Hung Hsiu-chu, who was trailing badly in opinion polls.

The Nationalist Party conceded Saturday evening.

Tsai, who will take office in May, will become only the second member of the DPP to ever serve as 
Taiwan’s president; her party held the office from 2000 to 2008 under Chen Shui-bian.

 


Pre-election opinion polls showed that Tsai’s party and its allies might also, for the first time, wrest control of the 113-member parliament away from the Nationalists and their affiliates. That would give Tsai much more power to push her agenda, which includes reforming Taiwan’s judiciary. 

  latimes.com
 16/1/16
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2 comments :

  1. Taïwan/présidentielle: victoire écrasante de la candidate de l'opposition...

    La candidate de l'opposition à Taïwan, Tsai Ing-wen, est devenue samedi la première femme présidente de l'île, en infligeant une défaite cinglante au parti au pouvoir, le Kuomintang (KMT), artisan du rapprochement avec Pékin que les Taïwanais ont massivement rejeté avec ce vote.

    Selon la commission électorale, Mme Tsai, du Parti démocratique progressiste (PDP), a remporté 56,12% des voix contre 31,04% pour Eric Chu, dont le KMT enregistre une déroute historique, qui se traduisait aussi par la perte de sa majorité au Parlement.

    Il s'agit de la victoire la plus écrasante du principal parti d'opposition.

    Dans sa première déclaration à la presse, Mme Tsai a tenu à appeler Pékin à respecter le "système démocratique, l'identité nationale et l'intégrité territoriale" de TaÏwan.

    "Toute forme de violation affectera la stabilité des relations entre les deux rives du détroit", a-t-elle averti.......http://www.rtl.be

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  2. China warns on Taiwan independence after election...

    China's Taiwan Affairs Office said on Saturday (Jan 16) it would continue to oppose any Taiwan independence activities, after the leader of Taiwan's pro-independence opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the island's presidential election.

    China's determination to protect its territory and sovereignty was "hard as a rock", it said in a statement released via the official Xinhua news agency.

    "We will continue to adhere to the 1992 Consensus and resolutely oppose any form of secessionist activities seeking 'Taiwan independence'," the statement said.

    The 1992 Consensus is an agreement reached in 1992 that allows both sides to claim to be rightful leaders of the Chinese nation, but explicitly closes the door to an independent Taiwan......http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/china-warns-on-taiwan/2432712.html

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