Taipei Times
Date: Dec 21, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
Most Taiwanese would not support a re-election bid by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英
Taiwan Brain Trust executive officer Chen Chih-chung speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Hsieh Chun-lin, Taipei Times
文), but would support Premier William Lai (賴清德) if he represents the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for the nation’s top office in 2020, a survey published yesterday showed.
The poll, conducted by the green-leaning Taiwan Brain Trust think tank from Wednesday to Friday last week, gauged voter preferences for the 2020 presidential race after the DPP’s landslide losses in the Nov. 24 nine-in-one elections.
The poll found that Tsai’s disapproval rating has climbed 12 percentage points from a similar survey by the think tank in July to 66.8 percent, while her approval rating has dropped to only 19 percent.
While 45.7 percent of respondents said they would not vote for a DPP presidential candidate in 2020, the number rose to 66.3 percent when asked if they would support a re-election bid by Tsai, compared with 22.4 percent who said they would.
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