During a speech in Tokyo on Sunday, Numata said that the margin between Han and Tsai could be about 5 percentage points or less. Having ruled Taiwan for 50 years, the Japanese government remains well-connected in the nation, Alex Tsai said yesterday. The KMT has bounced back from rock bottom and is set to catch up with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the elections, he said. The findings confirmed that “there is an Internet army that is directly taking instructions from DPP headquarters,” Alex Tsai said. Huang later filed defamation charges against Chiu, Alex Tsai and Chang with the Taichung District Prosecutors’ Office.

Source: Taipei Times December 24, 2019 15:56 UTC