Premier Lai resigns over DPP's election defeat

Premier Lai Ching-te (賴清德) announced Saturday night that he has offered to resign to shoulder responsibility for the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) crushing defeat in the local government elections and apologized for the result.

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