Lai Ching-Te (aka William Lai) won Taiwan’s Presidential election on January 13, with 40.5% of the vote, and achieving a record third term for the incumbent Democratic Progressive Party, reports Alex Salmon.
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On the final weekend before Saturday’s referendum, heavyweights from both major parties yesterday held events to garner support for their parties’ positions on the referendum questions.
On the ballot would be questions related to banning the importation of pork containing traces of the leanness-enhancing feed additive ractopamine, relocating a natural gas terminal project to protect algal reefs off Taoyuan’s Guanyin District (觀音), restarting construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮) and holding referendums alongside elections.
Speaking at the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) event in Tainan, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), who is DPP chairperson, said
POLARIZED: While KMT Chairman Eric Chu said that his party ‘expresses the will of the people,’ Premier Su Tseng-chang said the KMT is ‘making a mess of Taiwan’By Tsai Wen-chu, Lin Liang-sheng and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday held events nationwide urging people to vote against all four questions in the referendum on Saturday next week.
On the ballot are questions related to banning the importation of pork containing traces of the leanness-enhancing additive ractopamine, relocation of a natural gas terminal project to protect algal reefs off Taoyuan’s Guanyin District (觀音), activating the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮) and holding referendums alongside elections.
Near roads and streets in cities and counties across Taiwan, DPP members gathered to urge people to vote “no” on the questions.
Separately yesterday, the Chinese