Ruling party concedes defeat in Taiwan; Tsai Ing-wen to become first female president
Source: Washington Post
TAIPEI — Taiwan’s ruling party conceded defeat in the island's presidential elections Saturday, meaning opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen will become the island’s first woman president.
By 7 p.m. local time, Tsai, head of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), had recorded more than 4,655,000 votes, far ahead of Eric Chu of the ruling Nationalists or Kuomintang (KMT) with some 2,614,000 votes.
The KMT’s eight years in power have seen warming ties with China but a slowing economy, and the result raises the prospect of a new era of uncertainty in ties with China.
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Tsai insists she wants good relations with China, and stresses the need for communication. However, she wants to maintain the status quo of de facto independence, and has refused to endorse the “one China” principle — because that would mean renouncing any possibility of eventual, formal independence.
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