Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential hopeful Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) approval rate was the highest among the DPP’s contenders after the party held its first televised presidential presentation on Saturday, two local media polls showed.
A poll by the public opinion center at cable news station TVBS said that Tsai, who took a leave of absence as party chairperson to run in the party primaries, scored 26 percent approval against former premier Su Tseng-chang’s (蘇貞昌) 21 percent.
The party’s third contender, former DPP chairman Hsu Hsin-liang (許信良), received only 4 percent. The remainder, or 49 percent, said they had no opinion.
The TVBS survey said that if the election were held today, Tsai would receive 37 percent of the vote compared with 39 percent for President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), while Su would take 35 percent against Ma’s 39 percent.
The poll questioned a total of 871 people, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
Meanwhile, a poll by the -Chinese-language Apple Daily said Tsai scored a 48.4 percent approval against Su’s 32.4 percent, while Hsu’s was 10.4 percent.
The poll collected 250 samples and all respondents had watched Saturday’s televised presentation.
Candidates were not given the opportunity to ask each other questions during the presentation, a policy that will hold for the following three DPP presentations later this month — on Wednesday, Saturday and April 20.
The DPP will conduct a poll to decide who will represent the party to run in next year’s presidential election.
Former polls have showed it would be a close race between Su and Tsai.
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