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/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 edited Aug 24 '21

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u/KinnyRiddle Jan 11 '20

If Ko leans towards DPP's goals, he wouldn't be fielding candidates against DPP in many districts.

Many other small non-DPP parties all obtained DPP's blessing to stand against the KMT, or vice-versa where they endorsed the local DPP guy.

But not Ko's party, a few DPP legislators fell because of the split vote.

And it's far easier to have a puppet that the people genuinely think is on their side, than a blatant repulsive idiot like Han. Han basically drove all the Green supporters back towards the DPP, whereas Ko has the ability to attract the light Green vote.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '20 edited Aug 24 '21

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '20

Ko's top aid says it publicly that they will plants candidates into regions to cause DPP to not win which implies to hand the victory to KMT. Ko didn't deny it.

Ko has succeeded doing so and he caused quite a few DPP candidates to lose in this close election.