FEATURE/From popular mayor to ho-hum candidate, KMT's Hou struggles to gain traction
08/24/2023 06:06 PM
After winning re-election as New Taipei mayor by a 25-point margin in November 2022, Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜) was thought to be the "chosen one" who could help the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) win back power it lost to the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 2016.
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