Thread by @ezracheungtoto

Just in #TaiwanElection: Incumbent Taiwan President and Democratic Progressive Party candidate, Tsai Ing-wen @iingwen, has just bagged more than one million votes, constituting to almost 60 per cent of the total votes at the moment. #HongKongProtests

@iingwen Just in #TaiwanElection: Tsai @iingwen has managed to bag one million more votes in about 20 minutes’ time, at least 600,000 votes ahead of her arch-rival, Han Kuo-yu of the Chinese Nationalist Party. #HongKongProtests

@iingwen Just in #TaiwanElection: The divide between DPP’s Tsai Ing-wen @iingwen and KMT’s Han Kuo-yu has furthered. Tsai’s votes have exceeded three million, at least 800,000 more than Han’s. And Tsai is expected to be leading the race down the road. #HongKongProtests

@iingwen In the breakdown in regard to the Kaohsiung city, whose mayor is KMT’s Han Kuo-yu, Han (15,522) has indeed lost 12,000 votes than DPP’s Tsai Ing-wen (27,934). Han declared to run for Taiwan President about four months after winning the mayoral election in 2018. #HongKongProtests

@iingwen @galileocheng Just in #TaiwanElection: In the first 2.5 hours of the vote-counting procedure, DPP’s Tsai Ing-wen has managed to amass more than four million votes, which is at least 1.2 million more than KMT’s Han Kuo-yu. It can be assumed that Tsai has won her reelection. #HongKongProtests

@iingwen @galileocheng Just in #TaiwanElection: Many Chinese Nationalist Party and Han Kuo-yu supporters are seen weeping and wiping their tears during their rally. Han is thought to have lost the race. Tsai Ing-wen will meet the press at 8 pm. She is expected to announce her victory. #HongKongProtests