Tsai’s approval high despite KMT’s US pork campaign CONTINUITY? A poll showed that 21 percent would support a presidential bid by Vice President William Lai, ahead of New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi at 19 percent By Jonathan Chin / Staff writer The approval rating of President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration remains high, despite the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) campaign against the lifting of a ban on US pork imports, a My-Formosa.com poll showed on Tuesday. My-Formosa.com is a pan-green-leaning media company unaffiliated with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The approval rate of the Tsai administration was 59.8 last month, 2 percentage points higher than in January, the poll showed.