The opposition’s failure to work together puts the DPP’s William Lai in pole position for January’s presidential election.
Taiwan’s opposition parties are due to register separate candidates for next year’s presidential elections, hours after an attempt to field a joint ticket against the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) collapsed in acrimony on live television.
The main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) is fielding Hou Yu-ih for the presidency, while Ko Wen-je, who has been polling more strongly in opinion polls, will run for the smaller Taiwan People’s Party (TPP).
The KMT chose pro-China media personality Jaw Shaw-kong as Hou’s running mate while the TPP chose one of its lawmakers Cynthia Wu.
Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of Apple supplier Foxconn, announced in August he would run as an independent, but he lags far behind the other candidates in opinion polls,…
