Taiwan election: President Tsai widens lead over rivals in opinion polls

Polls released on Monday showed that the gap between Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and her main contestant is widening, with Tsai leading by about 30 percentage points.Tuesday will mark the last day for publication of any opinion polls before the Jan. 11 elections, in which Taiwanese voters will elect a president, vice president and 113 members of the state legislature.Tsai, of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, is running for re-election against Han Kuo-yu, of the main opposition Nationalist Party (KMT), and James Soong, leader of the People First Party, a splinter party of the KMT."…READ FULL ARTICLE