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1 F E A T U R E Taiwan 2018 Election Democratic Progressive Party suffers big defeat in Taiwan elections; Tsai Ing-wen resigns as chairwoman Independence-leaning party loses seven of 13 cities and counties in Saturday s polls Premier William Lai also offers his resignation to Tsai Lawrence Chung, Kristin Huang South China Morning Post November 24, 2018 PUBLISHED : Saturday, 24 November, 2018, 5:33pm UPDATED : Sunday, 25 November, 2018, 8:39pm T aiwan s President Tsai Ing-wen has resigned as chairwoman of the Democratic Progressive Party after suffering a humiliating electoral defeat. The independence-leaning party lost seven of its 13 cities and counties in Saturday s polls, including two special municipalities, as a disgruntled electorate handed it a vote of no confidence. Analysts described the result as a turnaround in political influence, four years on from the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) suffering a similar election setback. Tsai had been facing mounting pressure from Beijing and a domestic backlash over the economy. The KMT swept to a landslide victory, winning not only the southern city of Kaohsiung,

2 but also its former political territory Taichung in central Taiwan, allowing it to increase its influence to at least three of the six special municipalities and a number of other local cities and counties. Kaohsiung had been a power base for proindependence DPP for two decades. Meanwhile, Ko Wenje, the independent mayor of the island s capital Taipei, declared victory early Sunday morning. A grim-faced Tsai announced her resignation at a hastily called news conference in Taipei. I hereby announce my resignation as chairwoman and shoulder responsibility, she said. We have learned a lesson and must reflect on ourselves as, obviously, voters have a higher expectation of us. In a Facebook post, Premier William Lai said he also had offered his resignation to Tsai. The nine-in-one elections are a vote for the public to inspect the government s performance, and the results show the public obviously is not satisfied, he said. I feel sorry for this and I have offered my verbal resignation to Tsai to take political responsibility. on. Tsai later said she would ask Lai to stay The southern city of Kaohsiung was a key battleground with the mainland-friendly KMT candidate Han Kuo-yu winning the seat from the DPP s Chen Chi-mai. The DPP s defeat in Kaohsiung is a significant setback for the party as it has long been a stronghold of the pro-independence camp. Before Saturday s poll, the DPP controlled 13 of the 22 cities and counties in Taiwan, and four of its special municipalities Kaohsiung, Taichung, Tainan and Taoyuan. Taipei City and New Taipei City are the island s other special municipalities. It now controls only six cities and counties.

3 Han was almost unknown a few months ago, but his grass-roots campaign including a pledge to make Kaohsiung great again attracted strong support from voters eager for change and better living standards after two decades of DPP control. Han has pledged to improve the local economy so that people do not have to leave their families to find work. Analysts said the result of the poll may also end up costing Tsai the presidency as she might not be nominated to run in the 2020 elections. The results indicate the public are strongly dissatisfied with the performance of Tsai and used their ballots to teach her a lesson, said Wang Kung-yi, a political-science professor at Chinese Culture University in Taipei. The outcome was exactly the same as in 2014, when the KMT suffered its worst electoral setback as voters were dissatisfied with then president Ma Ying-jeou s government. Lai, who has openly declared his proindependence stance since being appointed premier, would most likely succeed Tsai as DPP chairman and represent it in the 2020 polls, he said. Yu Keli, a former director of the Taiwan research centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the result would have a major impact on future cross-strait relations. The DPP is at a crossroads, we will see whether there will be a more rational voice in the party to reflect its policy on relations with mainland China, but we shouldn t build our hopes up too much. Sun Da-chien, a former KMT legislator and now a finance law professor at CTBS Business School in Tainan, said the KMT s victory, however, had little to do with the century-old party. The KMT should not entertain the thought that it is the actual winner of the election. Rather it won because voters were disappointed with the DPP and Tsai s performance, he said. It reflects Taiwan s hopes for peaceful relations across the strait, and it is going to have a positive and profound impact on cross-strait relations. But Wang from Chinese Culture University said that if Lai took the DPP helm, the party would have a much stronger proindependence stance.

4 If he was appointed to run for president and won the 2020 race, cross-strait relations could get even worse, he said. At KMT headquarters, party chairman Wu Den-yih was all smiles as he told supporters that despite the hardship of the past two years, the result of the polls was the warmest encouragement from voters and that the KMT candidates who won seats must not let the voters down. When asked if he would run for president, he said: Any presidential candidate nominated by the KMT must go through a fair and just mechanism. Voter turnout in the local elections looked to be one of the highest recorded as millions of voters went to the polls. Long queues of voters, some stretching more than a kilometre, formed outside many of the 15,000 polling stations after they opened at 8am. In some places they faced a wait of up to two hours before they were able to cast their ballots in the unprecedented nine-in-one elections nine elections on the same day and 10 referendums. By 4pm, the official closing time, long lines were still reported outside many polling stations, although electoral law states that those who had arrived before then would still be able to cast their ballots. In the first fatality ever reported during a Taiwanese election, one 61-year-old woman died after collapsing outside a polling station in Kaohsiung, according to the Central News Agency. Observers said the high turnout was due mainly to the fierce fight between the opposition Kuomintang and the DPP and the controversies surrounding some of the referendums especially the ones on same-sex marriage. The heated debates between the pro and anti-gay groups over marriage equality and other related issues have also boosted the turnout as the two camps have mobilised hundreds of thousands of supporters, said Liao Daichi, a professor of political science at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung. Beijing, which sees Taiwan as a breakaway province and has never renounced the use of force to reclaim it, has suspended exchanges with the island since Tsai s election in It has also taken an increasingly confrontational stance by staging a series of war games around the island while poaching five of its remaining diplomatic allies. On the other hand, pro-independence supporters have been disappointed with what they regard as too mild a cross-strait policy and her unwillingness to change the island s official name from the Republic of China to Taiwan.

5 same time, said Ko, who had to wait for more than an hour. He said Taiwan was a global information and technology giant, but the ballot procedure was worse than that found in many third world countries. The most controversial referendums of the day concerned LGBT issues, a debate that has proved hugely divisive. The ballot included three measures put forward by the conservative group Happiness of the Next Generation Alliance, which says its supports gay rights by wants seek to block efforts to introduce same-sex marriage and wants to ban lessons to teach primary and junior high school pupils about samesex relationships. Many people complained about the slow voting process, due mainly to the complicated procedure which required them to first complete the local government ballots before moving on to the 10 referendum questions. The operation is too slow, obviously stalled by the holding of the referendum at the But gay rights groups sought to counter this by asking voters to support changes to the civil code that would redefine marriage and include same-sex relations in school sex education classes. As of 11.50pm on Saturday, the referendums on whether civil code should define marriage as being between one man and one

6 woman, and that homosexual education should not be taught in elementary and junior high schools, had passed the threshold of 5 million votes in favour. Three other votes on air pollution and nuclear power had also passed the 5 million mark. A woman surnamed Wang, 27, said she voted to keep the current name of Chinese Taipei. Once the island is stripped off the chance to join the Olympics, the athletes years-long training will be wasted, and their careers will be ruined. We cannot afford to destroy other people s lives A 30-year-old man surnamed Wang said he did not want young children to learn about gay marriage in school, since being too young means lacking in proper judgment. But one supporter of same-sex marriage said she hoped society would become more tolerant. Older people in Taiwan are pretty conservative and have lots of prejudice against LGBT people, I hope they can be treated as normal human beings, she said. Another closely watched referendum is one that asks voters to choose whether its international sports teams should ditch their current designation as Chinese-Taipei and compete as Taiwan instead. Not only would that move anger Beijing, but the International Olympic Committee has warned that the island could risk losing its right to compete if it seeks to change its name. in such an easy vote, she said. But Chih disagreed. I know changing the name will endanger other people s careers, but I still think we need a try. How can we know that the world will listen to our voice if we do not even cast our votes? The referendum results are expected to be announced about 2am on Sunday. Additional reporting by Wendy Wu.

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