There were high hopes among Taiwan’s main opposition party when Han Kuo-yu entered the island’s presidential race in the summer of 2019.
The populist Kuomintang candidate had months earlier been elected mayor of the southern port city of Kaohsiung – a traditional stronghold of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party. It was a landslide win for the former businessman, who was seen as a strong contender for president in 2020.
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