November 28, 2022

Taiwan residents' choices, which made the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lose its key places like Taipei, Taoyuan and Hsinchu in the island's local elections, as observers see, were a loud "No" to DPP authorities' policies on a wide range of topics related to people's livelihoods including the chaotic COVID-19 response and the failure to rein in rising prices, and also demonstrated that Tsai Ing-wen''s "China threat bet" has backfired.

Such results proved the mainstream public opinion on the island was for peace, Chinese mainland authorities on Taiwan affairs stated on Saturday, while vowing to continue working with the Taiwan people to promote peaceful development of cross-Straits relations and firmly oppose "Taiwan independence" and external interference,

The DPP got five out of 21 posts of "city mayors" and "county chiefs" and the Kuomintang (KMT) grasped 13. In the six "special municipalities," namely New Taipei, Taipei, Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung, four were in the KMT's hands while the DPP kept Tainan and Kaohsiung in the south. 

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