Taiwan’s governing party has called a special congress to consider dropping its unpopular presidential candidate — just three months before an election that will set the tone for relations with Beijing.
In a rare race between two female leading contenders, Hung Hsiu-chu, a straight-talking legislator from the ruling Kuomintang or Nationalist party, has fallen 20 percentage points behind the frontrunner, opposition politician Tsai Ing-wen.
The KMT, which has ruled Taiwan for much of the period since it fled mainland China after losing the civil war with the Communists in 1949, decided yesterday it would hold the extraordinary meeting to “gather consensus and unite for victory”.
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