ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PRESIDENT ELECT TSAI ING-WEN

Tsai Ing-wen (Chinese: 蔡英文; pinyin: Cài Yīngwén; born 31 August 1956) is the president-elect of the Republic of China(Taiwan) and the first female elected to the office.[1] She is also the first president-elect to be of Hakka and Aboriginal descent (1/4 Paiwan from her grandmother), first single president and the first to have never held a position of an elected post. She is the second female president of East Asian nations after current South Korea President Park Geun-hye. She is the incumbent chairwoman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and was the party's presidential candidate in 2012 and 2016. Tsai previously served as party chair from 2008 to 2012.

Having studied law in Taiwan, the US and then Britain, Tsai earned a LL.B. atNational Taiwan University, a LL.M. atCornell University Law School and a Ph.D.at the London School of Economics.[2][3]Tsai held professorial positions at severaluniversities upon returning from her study abroad in 1984. Starting in 1993, she was appointed to a series of governmentalpositions by the then-ruling Kuomintang(KMT) and was one of the chief drafters of the special state-to-state relationsdoctrine of then President Lee Teng-hui.

After DPP President Chen Shui-bian took office in 2000, Tsai served as Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council throughout Chen's first term as a non-partisan. She became a DPP member in 2004 and served briefly as a DPP-listed non-constituency member of the Legislative Yuan. From there, she was appointed Vice Premier under Premier Su Tseng-changuntil the cabinet's mass resignation in 2007. She was elected and assumed DPP chairpersonship in 2008, following her party's defeat in the 2008 presidential election. She resigned as chairperson after losing her 2012 presidential election bid.



Tsai ran for New Taipei City mayorship in the November 2010 municipal electionsbut was defeated by another former vice premier, Eric Chu (KMT). In April 2011, Tsai became the first female presidential candidate of a major party in the history of the Republic of China after defeating her former superior, Su Tseng-chang, in the DPP's primary by a slight margin. She was defeated by incumbent Kuomintang candidate Ma Ying-jeou in the 5th direct presidential election in 2012, and was elected by a landslide four years later in the 6th direct presidential election in 2016

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