TAIPEI: He won Taiwan’s largest ever landslide victory, a safe pair of hands promising prosperity and stability -- but president Ma Ying-jeou (pic) leaves office this month caricatured as incompetent, aloof and wildly out of step with public sentiment.
Coolly coiffed with a sweep of jet-black hair, urbane Ma was seen as a reliable “Mr Clean” when he stormed to victory for the Kuomintang party in 2008, replacing an outgoing opposition government mired in corruption.
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