A new era begins in Taiwan with President-elect Ma Ying- Jeou

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The weekend’s election saw the Koumintang or KMT return to power in Taiwan after 8 years in the wilderness of Opposition. Their candidate Ma Ying-Jeou defeated Frank Hsieh from the incumbent Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) by a healthy margin of nearly 17 percentage points. Like the ALP, the Koumintang is now firmly back in power at all levels of government after crushing the DPP in January’s elections and gaining a stranglehold in the Parliament.

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