Leader of Taiwan DPP, party hated by China, heads last election poll

TAIPEI (Reuters) - The leader of Taiwan's independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), an organisation loathed by rulers in giant neighbour China, was top of the last opinion poll on Tuesday before a polling blackout begins ahead of the Jan. 16 elections.

The poll by Taiwan's Cross-Strait Policy Association showed 45.2 percent of 1,052 people surveyed supported Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of the DPP, while 16.3 percent backed Eric Chu, chairman and candidate for the ruling Nationalists (KMT).