Taiwan announces list for new leadership and legislators
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Xinhua, January 20, 2012
Taiwan's election commission on Thursday announced new leadership and legislators for the next four years beginning from May.
The commission adopted and released a public notice after a meeting of commission members, announcing that incumbent Taiwan leader and ruling Kuomintang chairman Ma Ying-jeou and his running mate Wu Den-yih, incumbent chief of the island's executive authority, will be the island's new leader and deputy leader, respectively.
Chang Po-ya, chairwoman of the island's election commission, will deliver certificates to Ma and Wu Friday.
Last Saturday, Ma comfortably secured a second term in office with a victory in the island's fifth leadership election since 1996. The 61-year-old defeated the major opposition Democratic Progressive Party Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen and minority People First Party Chairman James Soong in a three-way race. Ma took 51.6 percent of the votes, leading Tsai by nearly 800,000 votes.
According to electoral rules, leadership candidates who collect more than one-third of the total votes are entitled to campaign subsidies to the tune of 30 New Taiwan dollars (about 1 U.S. dollar) per vote.
Therefore, Ma and Wu are entitled to an allowance worth 206.73 million New Taiwan dollars, while Tsai and her running mate Su Jia-chyuan can obtain 182.8 million New Taiwan dollars. Both subsidies are to be received by the political parties they represent, the commission said.
As both Ma and Tsai got more than 5 percent of the votes, the 15-million-New-Taiwan-dollar deposit they paid when registering for leadership election in November will be returned to them, it said.
Soong and his running mate Lin Ruey-shiung gained only 2.8 percent of the vote, preventing them from receiving their deposit.
Thursday's election commission meeting also adopted and released a list of the island's 113 legislators.
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