Taipei Mayor Chosen to Lead Nationalists
From Times Wire Reports
Taiwan’s largest opposition party chose as its new chairman an uncompromising advocate of eventual unification with China, laying down the gauntlet to the island’s independence-leaning leaders.
In their first public leadership ballot, the once-dominant Nationalists selected Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou, 55, to take over from Lien Chan.
About 45% of the party’s million members turned out for the ballot, and Ma garnered more than twice as many votes as his lone rival, Wang Jyn-pyng, 64.
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