Han Kuo-yu wins the KMT presidential primary by 44% – he will be running up against Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan's 2020 election.
The News Lens
Date: 2019/07/15
By: Brian Hioe
Han Kuo-yu wins the KMT presidential primary by 44% – he will be running up against Tsai Ing-wen in Taiwan’s 2020 election.
Han won by overwhelming margins, garnering 44.80 percent of the vote. Foxconn founder Terry Gou (郭台銘), a major contender against Han for the nomination, obtained 27.73 percent of the vote, while former New Taipei Mayor Eric Chu (朱立倫) only received 17.9 percent.
The KMT determined its presidential candidates through telephone polls, and the results are then confirmed by the party’s standing committee. Unlike the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the KMT does not include mobile phones in its phone polling process, which likely resulted in the sample size skewing older.
Han’s victory by a large margin came as a surprise as Gou was catching up in the polls last week.
He has benefited from constant media exposure since his rise from obscurity to superstardom in the months before the 2018 nine-in-one local elections. Gou, on the other hand, poured resources into campaign advertising last month, drawing on his wealth as Taiwan’s richest man.
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