Taiwan poll defeat was a message from the electorate for the DPP, but will Tsai Ing-wen heed what they said?
2018-11-27 10:38:29 source：South China Morning Post
November 27, 2018
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen will have to review her policies in running the self-ruled island, including the highly sensitive cross-strait strategy watched closely by Beijing and Washington, following the crushing electoral defeat of her independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party over the weekend, analysts said.
Equally significant was whether she should continue to heavily rely on the United States after both the so-called pro-independence and the US cards failed to turn the tide in the local polls, they said.
The DPP lost seven of the 13 cities and counties, including two special municipalities – Taichung and Kaohsiung – in Saturday’s nine-in-one local government elections, while the opposition Kuomintang scored 15 cities and counties, including three municipalities, in a result that silenced the political pundits.
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