Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) wins Taiwan election (Jan. 14, 2012)

Taiwan's incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) gives his victory speech outside the Kuomintang (KMT / 中國國民黨 / 中国国民党) campaign headquarters after winning a second four-year term in office, in this live TV broadcast on TVBS (Taiwan) in Taipei City (臺北市 / 台北市), Taiwan (臺灣 台灣; Republic of China - ROC 中華民國) on Saturday night, Jan. 14, 2012. Thousands of KMT supporters gathered in pouring rain in front of the party headquarters located at BaDe Rd. (No.232~234, Sec. 2) in Zhongshan district of Taipei City for the victory celebrations.

Ma received 6,891,139 votes, or 51.6 percent of the total votes. His leading Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) challenger Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) won 6,093,578 votes, or 45.63 percent of the total; while the People First Party's James Soong (宋楚瑜) took 369,588 votes, or 2.77 percent of the total votes cast.

Voter turnout was 74.38 percent, with 13,452,016 of the 18,086,455 qualified voters casting their votes. The presidential election was held concurrently with legislative elections, and it was the fifth direct election for the President of the Republic of China (中華民國總統 / 中华民国总统). Prior to 1996, the President was elected by the ROC's National Assembly and not directly by the people.

Meanwhile in China, millions of people accustomed to one-party rule at home got a front-row seat of democracy in action on Saturday watching Taiwan's hotly contested presidential election live online. The nation's major Internet portals tallied in real time votes for Ma Ying-jeou and his challengers, Tsai Ing-wen and James Soong. Top Chinese portal Sina dedicated a page to the contest with pictures of the candidates, their votes ticking upwards every few seconds and colorful maps of the island China considers a rogue province divided into voting districts.

Over 200,000 Taiwanese businesspeople based in mainland China flew home to Taiwan to vote.

Video Copyright © 2012 TVBS Taiwan ( http://www.tvbs.com.tw )




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[thanksforyouruploads]

the fact that taiwan is a monolingual country and it makes stupid decisions... means that the citizens are disconnected from the global market.

instead of promoting mandarin and english only

there are hakka, hokkien, aborigines' dialect channels around.

this reflects a terrible public policy.

why learn a language that only a few people know?

if u choose that, don't blame the govt for the crap salary one receives.

stay relevant to the global market if u like to enrich your citizens, no?

[thanksforyouruploads]

the fact that taiwan is a monolingual country and it makes stupid decisions... means that the citizens are disconnected from the global market.

instead of promoting mandarin and english only...

there are hakka, hokkien, aborigines' dialect channels around.

this reflects a terrible public policy.

why learn a language that only a few people know?

if u choose that, don't blame the govt for the crap salary one receives.

stay relevant to the global market if u like to enrich your citizens, no?

[thanksforyouruploads]

the fact that taiwan is a monolingual country and it makes stupid decisions... means that the citizens are disconnected from the global market.

instead of promoting mandarin and english only...

there are hakka, hokkien, aborigines' dialect channels around.

this reflects a terrible public policy.

why learn a language that only a few people know?

if u choose that, don't blame the govt for the crap salary one receives.

stay relevant to the global market if u like to enrich your citizens, no?

[thanksforyouruploads]

@thanksforyouruploads

in doing so, he isolated taiwan because of an ideal.

I see that DPP is still sticking to such an approach.

KMT though not very efficient... is the one with the most moderate approach for its citizen,

I think citizens are concerned with two things, 1. stability, 2. ability to make a living comfortably, where possible.

don't blame the govt for one's own fcuk up.

i see people blaming KMT because salary in tw are crap.

I don't see how DPP can make this better.

no?

[thanksforyouruploads]

@georgehenryhsu

hi George,

KMT's policy has been the same as the one in Chiang's time...

they are just interested in making money, enriching themselves.

That's how KMT lost China and conquered Taiwan, isn't it?

DPP has been very adamant about maintaining a distance from China in all forms.

I was in taiwan for a brief time during Chen's time.

at chen's time, many MNCs... and even tw's SME moved out to hong kong because chen was radical in ensuring that taiwan was independent from china.

[georgehenryhsu]

@thanksforyouruploads alternatively his re election makes the asian pacific more dangerous given that the KMT push for unification. Expansionist China will get its way and try to expand on its nationalist agenda

[thanksforyouruploads]

it's not constitutional...

he won't amend the law too... like putin and yuan shi kai.

these 4 years will be good for taiwan.

and

it provides safety to the world, as america would not fight china over a green DPP taiwan, which would likely push independence...

[AsianShakespeare]

@thanksforyouruploads I don't think it's constitutional for anyone to serve as president for more than two terms...

[thanksforyouruploads]

elect him for the third time !!!

2016, MA YING JEOU