Han Kuo-yu, standing on the presidential ticket for the Kuomintang party which favors close ties with China, is running a double-digit deficit in opinion polls behind President Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Han told reporters late on Thursday there were “many really strange polls” and even “fake polls” and people should refuse to answer calls from pollsters. However, writing on his Facebook page on Friday, Han said people should simply tell pollsters they were supporting Tsai. “From now on if you get a opinion poll call keep saying ‘(I) only support Tsai Ing-wen,” he wrote. Opinion polls for Taiwan elections are traditionally seen as being unreliable, due to the highly partisan nature of Taiwan’s media and politics, though most of the recent polls have Han behind Tsai.

Source: National Post November 29, 2019 08:26 UTC