CHINA’S SHADOW:Separate surveys by two think tanks showed increasing concern over Chinese companies acquiring shares in Taiwan’s high-tech and media industries
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 31, 2015
By: Alison Hsiao / Staff reporter
More than a quarter of the voters who backed President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九)
A Taiwan Thinktank member in Taipei yesterday points to a graphic explaining the results of its latest opinion poll. Photo: George Tsorng, Taipei Times
in 2012 would vote for Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) next month, a survey taken after the presidential debate on Sunday showed.
Taiwan Thinktank yesterday released the results of the poll conducted on Sunday and Monday, which showed that 45.9 percent said Tsai did better than her two rivals in the debate, while 22.1 percent said that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Eric Chu (朱立倫) was the best among the three and 19.9 percent rooted for People First Party presidential candidate James Soong (宋楚瑜).
The survey showed that 31.7 percent said they would choose to support a candidate based on their performance in a debate, while 67.5 percent said they would not. The numbers indicate that while debates — with another one scheduled on Saturday — might not have a major effect on a candidate’s popularity, they could solidify voters’ preferences, the think tank said. [FULL STORY]
