Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou (right) bows to apologize as Vice President Wu Dan-yih stands next to him at the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) headquarters in Taipei on November 29, 2014. - AFP
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s premier resigned after his Beijing-friendly ruling party suffered a landslide defeat at the island’s biggest ever local elections.
Jiang Yi-huah announced that he had stepped down at a brief press conference, saying that he took “political responsibility” for the Kuomintang’s heavy losses.
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