When the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) won big in Taiwan's November 2018 local elections, many felt President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) might have trouble holding on to power in the presidential race 14 months later.
Taipei, March 25 (CNA) Lawmakers across party lines on Friday voted to approve a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age in Taiwan from 20 to 18, making it the first proposed revision to the Constitution to cleared the Legislature since 2005.
Taipei, Jan. 9 (CNA) The ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) Lin Ching-yi (林靜儀) won Sunday's legislative by-election in Taichung's second district, defeating the Kuomintang's Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恒) and three other candidates.
Taipei, Jan. 9 (CNA) The ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) Lin Ching-yi (林靜儀) won Sunday's legislative by-election in Taichung's second district, defeating the Kuomintang's Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恒) and three other candidates.
The outcome of the poll in Taichung on Saturday’s referendum questions should be a warning to the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regarding the city’s legislative by-election next month, an academic said on Saturday.
The referendum results could, to some extent, hurt the chances of Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恒), a former legislator who is the KMT candidate in the by-election for Taichung’s second electoral district on Jan. 9, Tunghai University political science professor Shen Yu-chung (沈有忠) said.
Yen is to face off against former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Lin Ching-yi (林靜儀) in the battle to succeed former Taiwan Statebuilding Party legislator Chen Po-wei