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Taiwan election: Foxconn founder Terry Gou picks actress who played a presidential candidate in the Netflix show Wave Makers as running mate
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66806123
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Taiwan billionaire Terry Gou has chosen an actress whose Netflix drama sparked a MeToo movement as his running mate in January’s presidential election.
Mr Guo described Ms Lai “as an outstanding, all-round writer and spiritual mentor” while announcing her as his running mate on Thursday.
Ms Lai played a presidential candidate - a character seemingly thought to have been inspired by President Tsai Ing-wen - in the Netflix show Wave Makers.
But Mr Gou’s unconventional VP pick might not affect the results of the January election, says Dennis Weng, an associate professor at Sam Houston State University in the US.
Mr Gou, who has pledged to bring Taiwan “back from the abyss of war with China”, decided to run on an independent ticket after he failed to secure the nomination from the main opposition Kuomintang party (KMT).
Mr Guo and KMT’s Hou Yu-ih are seen as pro-China, unlike the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which favours formal independence for the island.
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