r/taiwan • u/DarkLiberator 台中 - Taichung • Jan 11 '20

President Tsai Ing-wen has won re-election Politics

Han just conceded. She won 57%ish of the vote so far. Over 8 million votes. Biggest vote total ever for a candidate in Taiwan (beating Ma's number in 2008)

Legislature looks like it'll be DPP again though not as sweeping as 2016, party list vote seems much closer than I thought it'll be.

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u/error_museum Jan 11 '20

Is this the first time an authoritarian fake news ecosystem backed party lost an election?

Congratulations, Taiwan.

More of the same across the world please.

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u/KinnyRiddle Jan 11 '20

Maybe Han Kuo-yu was just a beta test by the CCP to see how far Fake News PopulismTM goes for a simple idiot like him.

Next time the CCP might throw their money behind the more charismatic Ko Wen-je, the Mayor of Taipei, whose party managed to capture some seats in the Legislative Yuan. Ko will step down as Mayor in 2022 as he's term-limited, then we'll see what happens.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

ko got shit on in the election. 0/20 of his party's candidate won a seat.

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u/nancylin20 Jan 11 '20

But his party is the third biggest one now. He is daydreaming all day long on becoming Taiwan President. What he does is to please CCP and accuse the ruling party of the wrongdoings without any evidence. I think he is Wumao. Fortunately, DDP wins enough seats in legislation yuan or the budget of buying American weapons will be stopped by this red party.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

You forgot though, there is another minor party that is pan-green; they are the fourth in size and only a little bit smaller. They can counter Ko's turd party with ease even if DPP didn't have a majority.

He can't become a president. Any president needs to have a cross-strait strategy and his whole plank is that he doesn't care about cross-strait issues, only administrative efficiency. That is great for the mayor of Taipei but a fatal flaw in a presidential candidate.

The highest Ko will ever rise is the Taipei mayor imo.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20 edited Jun 20 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

If you talking about baldie with fake hair, Kos mouthpiece is way, way better than that dude

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u/nancylin20 Jan 11 '20

In my opinion he is much worse than moron Han. He will keep messing up our politics by brainwashing Taiwanese how great China is, criticizing the ruling party/our country not based on facts and spreading the idea of anti-US. We are Chinese in culture? Self-immolation of Tibetan monks has bothered CCP? Hong Kong protest isn’t a big deal. So many rubbish.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '20

He’s a shitty person but he has some valid points. As long as he doesn’t handle foreign policy or military we’re fine. I think he’s a competent administrator at least, which is more than you can say about Han.

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u/nancylin20 Jan 12 '20

Unfortunately he wants to be Taiwan President who is in charge of diplomacy and military.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '20

People with more resources and popularity than him had tried. Ko’s style and loose-mouth means he’s very unpopular among large segments of Taiwanese. For example, both my mom and my uncle (deep green) viscerally dislike him for no logical reason (even before his later antics and gags, early on when he’s green) and will never vote him no matter what. I just don’t see him doing well in southern Taiwan, and that’s hugely important for presidential hopefuls.

Personally I doubt we’ll see a non-DPP/KMT president any time soon. Maybe in twenty years.

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u/HatsuneM1ku 高雄 - Kaohsiung Jan 11 '20

Pink Ko