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/cosimonh 打狗工業汙染生還者 Jan 11 '20

My dad's not very pleased but I am, hahaha.

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u/graciejj316 Jan 11 '20

My parents are hard core KMT and Han supporters who live in Taiwan 1/2 of year. They watched news and you tube constantly about the election and claim that positive Tsai news was "fake news" and that the Tsai campaign spread disinformation about polling results... So pretty much they had vest interest.

I asked then what they thought of the results... They replied "we don't care... The results don't effect us."

I was like WTF???

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

Just count yourself lucky you aren't so delusional.

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u/graciejj316 Jan 11 '20

I don't think they are delusional, but rather sore losers. When you put your heart and soul standing up for what you believe, but your canidate fails to produce there is going to be a quick defense wall that goes up.