The 2020 election will see the incumbent Tsai Ing-wen of the DPP facing off against the KMT’s Han Kuo-yu

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/09/17
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Now that Foxconn tycoon Terry Gou (郭台銘) has dropped out of the picture,

the 2020 presidential race will be a duel between the two main political parties, said an unidentified Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) campaign member, according to a CNA report on Tuesday (Sept. 17).

Gou on Monday night said he would not participate in the presidential election. In a video on Tuesday he explained that he did not want to participate in a political farce and could not bear to see his supporters being bullied.

Gou’s exit from the presidential race has reduced the election next year to a face-off between the green camp (DPP and its supporters) and the blue camp (KMT and its supporters), represented by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜).

The unnamed DPP campaigner was quoted as saying Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) will not register as a candidate. Furthermore, even if former Vice President Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) passes the threshold for signatures, her influence on the election will be very limited.    [FULL  STORY]