From rank outsider to mayor of Kaohsiung: meet the man who wooed Taiwan's electorate
2018-11-26 10:07:42 source：South China Morning Post
November 26, 2018
After breaking two decades of control by Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), all eyes are now on the new mayor of Kaohsiung Han Kuo-yu.
The 61-year-old, whose parents came from central China’s Henan province, won a crushing victory for the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) over the independence-leaning DPP in the polls, which proved to be a difficult midterm test for embattled President Tsai Ing-wen.
Four years on from its own humiliating election defeat, the elections saw the KMT more than double its political control in the self-ruled island to 15 cities and counties, including three special municipalities.
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