Taiwan elected first female president who supports gay right
Taiwan’s new president is a female academic who loves cats and supports gay rights
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Taiwanese citizens appear to have elected Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Tsai Ing-Wen to be the island’s next president by a decisive margin. Although all the votes have not been counted yet, votes for Tsai are currently at 56% of more than 8 million votes cast, according to domestic media outlet UDN, and her opponent Eric Chu of the pro-Beijing Nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) party has just conceded defeat (link in Chinese).
Tsai, 59, earned a law degree from Cornell and a PhD from the London School of Economics, and taught law in Taiwan before entering politics in the 1990s, and making a failed presidential run in 2008. She will become Taiwan’s first female president, and arguably the most powerful woman in the Chinese-speaking world.
Her ascendancy comes amid widespread discontent with the KMT, which ran the island for past eight years under president Ma Ying-Jeou. During his tenure, the island’s economy flat-lined despite deeper economic integration with the mainland. Resentment towards the KMT peaked in March 2014, after the legislative yuan passed a trade pact with China. The student-driven Sunflower Movement blossomed in response, and grassroots protests swept the island.
Before last year’s gay pride parade in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, Tsai declared her support for gay marriage, saying in a video on Facebook: In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.
Her love of her two cats “Xiang xiang,” or “Think think,” and “Ah Tsai,” is well-known. One of them starred in her Chinese New Year’s message last year.
And it's a REAL election, not a fake one just for show, orchestrated by a power-hungry, bitter, EXTERNAL world power that constantly tries to undermine Taiwan's sovereignty and independence, only to force upon the Taiwanese a "leader" of said external ruling party's choosing.
Awesome
Slay TW
Good. Lets start to see some results! 
