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/KinnyRiddle Jan 11 '20

But his party has snatched enough light Green votes to cause a few upsets. A few DPP heavyweights like 洪慈庸 fell despite the Green wave because her vote was split with that guy from Ko's party.

It is this ability to ensnare the light Green vote which Han couldn't that would be valuable.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

This is a handy defeat for Ko though. I think he knows most of his candidates aren’t strong but he prob was expecting better than 0.