sat 16 jan 2016, 11:24

Verkiezingsdreun for Taiwanese Kuomintang

Young and old are China tired

Marcel Vink

Taipei –

The population of Taiwan seems to be as expected short work to have been made with the ruling pro-China Kuomintang party. Tsai Ing-wen book according to the first exitpolls with her Democratic Progressive Party a substantial victory.

The first results on the big screen: the Democratic Progressive Party shares a bang from the sitting Taiwanese government.

Photo:
AFP

The islanders choose this for a new future, one that is particularly less dependent on China, that Taiwan as a renegade province considers and envisages a future reunion.

The campaign of the DPP was in no way with those of the Kuomintang to compare. The atmosphere at the democrats was relaxed, celebratory, confident, and above all very modern.

When they got there, the other campaign, stark at. The way in which the pro-Chinese party voters tried to pull was deadly boring, conservative, actually downright corny. Especially younger voters, who have little ophadden with the regime of president Ma Ying-jeou, were therefore permanently excluded.

But also a lot of elderly people feel abandoned by Ma and his comrades. They voted so, too, are flocking for a fresh, new wind. The first exitpolls showed that Tsai more than 58 percent of the votes had been given.

This to the delight of Hwang Jung-hua, who with his 92-year-was eager to Tsai to vote. “And that, everyone is allowed to know, to wonder dolgelukkige senior at Taipei Municipal da-an mrt station Elementary School, which as a polling station was used.