Taiwan Premier Resigns Leaving Tsai With Key Cabinet Decision

Taiwan’s Premier Su Tseng-chang has tendered his resignation, leaving President Tsai Ing-wen to make a crucial appointment for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party as it seeks an unprecedented third straight term in power in next year’s presidential election.

Su, Taiwan’s longest-serving premier since its first democratic elections in 1996, requested the president form a new Cabinet in a statement Thursday, just hours after the legislature had approved the government’s 2023 budget. Epidemiologist Chen Chien-jen, who served as Tsai’s vice president during her first term between 2016 and 2020, is expected to take up the post of premier, United Daily News reported last week.