Know who is Terry Gou, who is running for President of Taiwan

Foxconn Technology Group founder Terry Goh has announced that he will run as an independent candidate in the 2024 presidential election in Taiwan. It is Terry Gow’s old dream to become the leader of the self-governing island, for which he will need about 290,000 votes.

A presidential election is scheduled to be held in Taiwan in January next year. Notably, Vice President Lai Ching-tae, a member of President Tsai Ing-wen’s Democratic Progressive Party, is the current contender for the 2024 presidential election.

Terry Gow’s journey so far
Terry Goh, a Taiwanese billionaire businessman, is the founder, former chairman and chief executive officer of Fox (the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer). In 2016, Go resigned from Foxconn and joined the Kuomintang (KMT) to run for the presidency. Kuomintang to whom Guomindang (GMD) is also called, Nationalist Party of China (NPC, or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP) is, that of the Republic of China A major political party. that 1928 from 1949 was the sole ruling party in China during the Republican era, While most of mainland China was under Chinese control. Terry, however, lost the election and came second in the Kuomintang primaries. In 2019, the business tycoon announced his withdrawal from the Kuomintang.

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Dream of becoming a candidate
According to Gou, he was ‘instructed’ by the sea goddess Mazu to run as a candidate in the 2020 presidential election in Taiwan. A poll released on July 20 by the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation found that Go’s campaign got off to a slow start, with only 15.2 percent of respondents voting for him. Lai Se with a 33.9 percent approval rating, Taiwan People’s Party’s Ko Wen-jie at 20.5 percent and Hou at 18 percent, Bloomberg reports. Gou has previously called for Taiwan and China to negotiate under a framework – referring to Taiwan being part of China.

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