About: Presidency of Tsai Ing-wen

The presidency of Tsai Ing-wen began on 20 May 2016 when Tsai Ing-wen was inaugurated as the seventh and current president of the Taiwan. Tsai, a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, took office following her landslide victory in the 2016 Taiwan presidential election over Kuomintang opponent Eric Chu and People First opponent James Soong. Four years later, in the 2020 election, Tsai defeated KMT nominee Han Kuo-yu for a second term. Tsai is the first woman to be elected as president of Taiwan, first unmarried president, and first president to be of both Hakka and aboriginal descent (a quarter Paiwan from her grandmother). She is the first President to have never held an elected executive post before serving as president, the first to be popularly elected without having previously se