Timeline: Taiwan’s road to democracy

December 13, 2011 | NEWS

(Reuters) – Taiwan will hold its fifth presidential election on January 14 since its transition to a full-fledged democracy from a martial law dictatorship. The poll pits incumbent the Nationalists’ Ma Ying-jeou against the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party’s Tsai Ing-wen, who is aiming to become Taiwan’s first female president, and James Soong, leader of a Nationalist splinter party …
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