Tsai Ing-wen has been sworn in as Taiwan’s new president.
Tsai is Taiwan’s fourth directly elected president and the first woman to hold the office. She took the oath of office shortly after 9:00 am local time at the Presidential Office in Taipei. The office’s website streamed the ceremony live.
Chen Chien-jen was then sworn in as the new vice president.
Tsai Ing-wen, the chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won January’s presidential election by a landslide, beating the Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Eric Chu. The DPP also won its first parliamentary majority in legislative elections held the same day. With Tsai’s inauguration, Taiwan now has a DPP president and a DPP-controlled legislature for the first time.