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Taiwan Elects Its First Female President

Newly elected Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen
Newly elected Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen

The ‘breakaway’ Chinese province of Taiwan has just gone through a landmark election which has ended with the election of its first female president.
Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) beat the incumbent Kuomintang’s (KMT) candidate, Eric Chu.
Mr Chu admitted defeat after Ing-wen took a commanding lead in the polls.
The KMT has ruled for most of the history of Taiwan as a province, with this being only the second time in 70 years that the DPP has snatched power. The KMT had amicable relations with China, but the DPP’s pro-Independence leanings seem to have won them the polls.
In her victory speech, Tsai called for mutual respect between both nations.
“I also want to emphasize that both sides of the Taiwanese Strait have a responsibility to find mutually acceptable means of interaction that are based on dignity and reciprocity.
“We must ensure that no provocations or accidents take place,” Ms Tsai said, adding that “any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations”.
China maintains Taiwan is a breakaway province, and often threatens to take it back by force.
Taiwan via these elections joins the list of nations who have had female heads of state, a list that’s heavily skewered towards nations in Asia.



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