Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is expected to elect Vice President Lai Ching Tak, who is seen as a leading candidate to become the next president.
The Democratic Progressive Party lost three mayoral posts, including Taoyuan, in the unified local elections last month, and failed to regain the mayor of Taipei. resigned from
The party set the voting date for the election to decide the successor to the chairman on the 15th of next month, and when it accepted candidatures until the 16th, only Vice President Rai Seitoku submitted a notification.
As a result, Mr. Lai is expected to be elected to head the new party.
Voting is supposed to be held even if there is only one candidate, and the percentage of votes will be noted.
After successively serving as the head of the Executive Yuan, which is the prime minister, Mr. Lai has served as vice president since May, the year before President Tsai entered his second term.
In July, he visited Tokyo to attend the funeral of former Prime Minister Abe.
On the 14th, when Lai submitted his candidacy for the party's presidential election, he expressed his determination on his Facebook page to "make the Democratic Progressive Party a political party that is more trusted by the people and continue to strengthen Taiwan."
Mr. Yori is seen as a strong candidate for the next president, and will first assume the top position of the party and take command of the Democratic Party's continuation of the administration.