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By Wendell Minnick
Pro-independence forces in Taiwan won a major victory during electoral polling by securing the presidency and the legislature from the Beijing-friendly Kuomintang (KMT) Party.
The Central Election Commission declared Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) the 14th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) on Jan. 16, beating her KMT opponent Chu “Eric” Li-luan.
Tsai, the first female elected to the executive office, won 56 percent of the vote, compared with Chu’s 31 percent. Voter turnout was 66 percent.
In the legislative election, the DPP won 68 seats of the 113 total seats, while the KMT took 35. This is the first time the DPP has secured control of the legislature and will be the first time the DPP will run the Foreign and National Defense Committee.
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