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| Presidency of Lai Ching-te 20 May 2024 –present | |
Vice President | |
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| Cabinet | Cho |
| Party |  Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) |
| Election | |
| Seat | Wanli Residence,Zhongzheng, Taipei |
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The presidency of Lai Ching-te began on 20 May 2024,when Lai Ching-te was sworn in as 16th president of the Republic of China and the eighth president of the republic since it became established on the island of Taiwan,succeeding Tsai Ing-wen. Lai and running mate Hsiao Bi-khim won the 2024 presidential election with 5.58 million votes,breaking the practice of two-term political party rotation with the Kuomintang since the first direct presidential election in 1996,and retaining the presidency for the Democratic Progressive Party for a record consecutive third term. However,unlike the previous two-term presidency of Tsai Ing-wen,the DPP failed to obtain a majority of seats in the Legislative Yuan alone,making Lai Ching-te's government the second minority government since Taiwan's democratisation. [1]
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Lai is the third incumbent vice president of Taiwan to become president,and the first to assume the office through election instead of a predecessor's death. Hsiao,the former Taiwanese Representative to the United States and a former member of the Legislative Yuan,was sworn in on the same day as vice-president,and become Taiwan's first biracial vice president,having been born in Kobe,Japan to a Taiwanese father and European-American mother.
