Funding for the New Frontier Foundation — which had been largely dormant since its creation in 1999 — to establish the two think tanks came entirely out of Tsai’s campaign subsidies taken from her failed campaign for the New Taipei City (新北市) mayoralty in November.
The foundation, staffed primarily by former party officials, will cost about NT$24 million (US$812,000) in its first year, Wu said, and will likely rely on continued support from the DPP.
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