Presidency of Lai Ching-te
Presidency of Lai Ching-te 20 May 2024 – present | |
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Cabinet | Cho |
Party | ‹See Tfd› Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) |
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Seat | Yonghe Residence, Zhongzheng, Taipei |
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The presidency of Lai Ching-te began on 20 May 2024, when Lai Ching-te was sworn in as 16th president of the Republic of China and the eighth president of the republic since it became established on the island of Taiwan, succeeding Tsai Ing-wen. Lai and running mate Hsiao Bi-khim won the 2024 presidential election with 5.58 million votes, breaking the practice of two-term political party rotation with the Kuomintang since the first direct presidential election in 1996, and retaining the presidency for the Democratic Progressive Party for a record consecutive third term. However, unlike the previous two-term presidency of Tsai Ing-wen, the DPP failed to obtain a majority of seats in the Legislative Yuan alone, making Lai Ching-te's government the second minority government since Taiwan's democratisation.
Lai is the third incumbent vice president of Taiwan to become president, and the first to assume the office through election instead of a predecessor's death. Hsiao, the former Taiwanese Representative to the United States and a former member of the Legislative Yuan, was sworn in on the same day as vice-president, and become Taiwan's first biracial vice president, having been born in Kobe, Japan to a Taiwanese father and European-American mother.
Administration[edit]
Title | Picture | Name | Political party | Term | Deputy | Notes |
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President | Lai Ching-te | Democratic Progressive Party | 20 May 2024 – present | Not applicable | ||
Vice President | Hsiao Bi-khim | Democratic Progressive Party | 20 May 2024 – present | Not applicable | ||
Secretary-General to the President | Pan Men-an | Democratic Progressive Party | 20 May 2024 – present | Ho Chih-wei Xavier Chang | ||
Secretary General of the National Security Council | Joseph Wu | Democratic Progressive Party | 20 May 2024 – present | Lin Fei-fan Hsu Szu-chien Liu Te-chin |
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Director-General of the National Security Bureau | Tsai Ming-yen | Independent | 20 May 2024 – present | |||
Spokesperson for the presidential palace | ||||||
Curator of National History Museum | Deputy Director: | |||||
Dean of Academia Sinica | Deputies are not appointed by the president, but are recommended by the academician conference. Fixed term system, five-year term |