DPP names Tsai as candidate for Taiwan’s 2016 Presidential election

TAIPEI – Tsai Ing-wen, Chairman of Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), has been officially nominated by the DPP as the Party’s Presidential candidate. It will be her second tilt at the Presidency- she was defeated in the 2012 election by President Ma Ying-jeou, who is constitutionally unable to run for a third term.

In her nomination speech, Tsai highlighted domestic affairs, including social justice and wealth distribution, and governance as the core issues of her election campaign, adding that the DPP would seek to maintain a cross-strait status quo as well as peace and stability.
In provincial elections in November 2014, the KMT lost heavily to the DPP, which has been favoured to regain power in 2016 (ATI).