Turkey- Speaker elected to Taiwan's DPP dominated legislature

2/1/2016 5:26:23 AM

(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) A new speaker was elected Monday to Taiwan’s legislature after a party traditionally known for its pro-independence stance on relations with Beijing won last month’s election.

Su Jia-chyuan of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won by 74 votes in the 113-seat parliament where the former opposition party secured its first majority in the Jan. 16 poll Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported.

He announced his resignation from all posts in the DPP after the vote saying he would also not join any party events in accordance with proposed reforms aimed at impartiality among senior lawmakers.

He underlined the public’s high expectation for the new parliament and the prioritization of reforms and “sorting out” the legislature.

All 68 parliamentarians from the DPP voted for Su 58 alongside the only independent lawmaker in the legislature and five others from the New Power Party the third-largest party since its establishment a year ago.

Su who previously served as DPP secretary-general and as minister of interior is understood to be a close ally of Tsai Ing-wen who is set to become Taiwan’s first female president.

The polls marked the first time that the ruling pro-China Kuomintang party – which has controlled the government for eight years – lost control of the island's legislature winning only 35 seats.

After Su’s election Mondaythe DPP's Tsai Chi-chang won thedeputy speaker post by 74 votes.

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