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Outsider candidate Ko Wen-Je looks to tip the scales at Taiwan election

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Published on 10 Jan 2024 / In News & Politics

With just two days left until Taiwan elects its new president, one candidate is looking to ride a wave of young voter support straight to the island's top job. With a pivotal election just days away, former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-Je says he can ease tensions with neighbouring China and shatter the two main parties’ stranglehold on power. If Ko Wen-Je can win Saturday’s race, he would be the first to do so from outside of Taiwan’s two main parties. Ko finds himself in a race divided by views on neighbouring China, which claims Taiwan as its own. The maverick former surgeon says he can find a middle ground in straddling relations with China.

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