Party celebrates an historic election victory. Taiwans Democratic Progressive Party got 40 of the total vote. China had warned taiwan a democratic progressive win could increase the risk of conflict. But voters, they shrugged off the warnings by making Lai Ching Te their new president. The taiwanese people have resisted efforts from external forces as we believe we can choose our own president. Cnns Mark Stuart is following all of this from beijing and joining us now. Good to see you. China and taiwan traded sharp words about the selection result. In terms of action, will china just sit back and absorb this at least for a little while . Yeah i think right now, what we are seeing is very much
party celebrates an historic election victory. taiwan s democratic progressive party got 40% of the total vote. china had warned taiwan a democratic progressive win could increase the risk of conflict. but voters, they shrugged off the warnings by making lai ching te their new president. the taiwanese people have resisted efforts from external forces as we believe we can choose our own president. cnn s mark stuart is following all of this from beijing and joining us now. good to see you. china and taiwan traded sharp words about the selection result. in terms of action, will china just sit back and absorb this at least for a little while? yeah i think right now, what we are seeing is very much
narrative according to i would deeply influence the selection result. the opposition is practically using the important argument that hungary should stand firmly with the european union and nato commitment and support ukraine as much as other countries do in europe while he is more cautious. to really see anything bad in russia because he developed a close relationship with vladimir putin over the last years and many of his borders were practically brainwashed by dominant media and shared this view. however, many supporters are actually ante russia so the new storytelling is that he is for peace and the opposition is blamed of
76.6% of the popular vote according to the election commission. it will be a resounding win for vladimir putin. you know, that in the face of voter apathy in the country because there wasn t much of a democratic contest. people were not going to bother coming out to vote, but the turn out was pretty good. 67% or just overca came out to cast their votes. vladimir putin s image in the country is popular. that has been obviously made clear by the selection result. dave. matthew chance live in moscow. thank you. scare in the air for ivanka trump and jared kushner. a helicopter carrying the couple
rank and file will approve it. no it s actually not clear this huge divide in the social democratic party between the leadership who wants to pursue another grand coalition a grand coalition two point zero so to say and the grassroots the majority of the grassroots is actually against this and that will clearly show we have to remember after that huge selection result in september for the social democrats the party leader martin scholz he clearly stated we are not going to pursue another grand coalition then he did eight hundred eighty turn around and is now behind me in those talks to go to negotiating again with the christian democrats there is going to be a party convention where the delegates will have to agree to what has been discussed in the talks behind me and then the grassroots of the social democrats is going to vote as well the whole membership of the social democrats so it is a long process until the the social democratic party will actually accept to go