Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Lai Qingde leads the island after the first 30 minutes of voting. This was reported by RIA News With reference to the local Şanlı TV channel.
The material indicates that a supporter of Taiwan independence is currently leading the presidential race. He has received 34.2% of the votes so far. transmits RNSstated in the publication.
At the same time, his closest follower was Ke Wenzhe, candidate of the Taiwan People’s Party. The politician, who plans to take measures to establish dialogue between China and the USA if he wins, received 28.9 percent of the votes.
In third place is Hou Yui, the representative of the opposition party. He advocates the normalization of relations between Taiwan and the PRC and currently has 28.4% of the vote.
However, journalists did not specify how many ballots had already been processed. At the same time, it is not known when the experts plan to complete the relevant process.
Votes are counted manually, depending on the TV channel. This is due to the lack of other voting methods in Taiwan’s presidential elections besides the use of traditional paper forms.
Tsai Ing-wen, former president of Taiwan accused He is running an illegal campaign on election day.