Taiwan has elected a total of 21 mayors and around 11,000 municipal councillors. The country’s president has to accept defeat.
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen resigned as party leader after losing local elections. In a televised address Saturday night, Tsai said she would take responsibility for the Progressive Democratic Party’s (DDP) poor performance.
The islanders have elected a total of 21 mayors and around 11,000 municipal councillors. The opposition Kuomintang Party (KMT) was able to largely retain its electorate compared to the last elections four years ago, while the DDP suffered significant losses.
Great-grandson of the former military dictator also a candidate
In the capital Taipei, a KMT candidate, Chiang Wan-an, has also won the mayoral post. Chiang is the great-grandson of former military dictator Chiang Kai-shek. He fled from China to Taiwan in 1949 after the Kuomintang lost the civil war against the communists. The KMT is considered to be right-wing conservative and anxious to get closer to China.
The communist leadership in Beijing still regards the democratically governed island as part of the People’s Republic. Taiwan, on the other hand, has long seen itself as independent. Tensions between the two neighboring countries had recently increased significantly.
Source: Stern
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