TAIPEI — With the election three months away, Taiwan’s opposition candidates are running up against a sturdy barrier in their race for the presidency as the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s candidate maintains a comfortable lead in opinion polls.
Besides the DPP’s Lai Ching-te, the candidates include Hou Yu-ih of the main opposition Kuomintang (KMT); Ko Wen-je, a former Taipei mayor and president of the Taiwan People’s Party; and Terry Gou, the founder of iPhone assembler Foxconn who is running as an independent.
