{"id":23112,"date":"2018-11-25T00:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T00:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23112"},"modified":"2018-11-25T00:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T00:22:55","slug":"taiwan-president-resigns-as-head-of-party-after-losses-in-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23112","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan President resigns as head of party after losses in local elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen announced her resignation Saturday as head of the Democratic Progressive Party after the party suffered a &#8220;crushing defeat&#8221; in local government elections, according to state media. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Central News Agency reported Tsai apologized to supporters for the ruling party&#8217;s &#8220;disappointing performance&#8221; in a speech at its headquarters, and she took full responsibility for the party&#8217;s losses. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Although she resigned as the party head, Tsai &#8212; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/01\/18\/asia\/taiwan-president-tsai-ing-wen\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">first woman to be elected President<\/a> of Taiwan &#8212; will serve out the remainder of her term. The next presidential election is scheduled for January 2020. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen announced her resignation Saturday as head of the Democratic Progressive Party after the party suffered a &#8220;crushing defeat&#8221; in local government elections, according to state media. The Central News Agency reported Tsai apologized to supporters for the ruling party&#8217;s &#8220;disappointing performance&#8221; in a speech at its headquarters, and she took full&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}