Tsai Ing-wen wins DPP chair election  

蔡英文当选民进党主席 得票率破九成

Tsai Ing-wen (C) shakes hands with the incumbent DPP chairman Su Tseng-chang (L) after Su and DPP heavyweight Hsieh Chang-ting (R) declare that they will drop out of the May election on April 14, 2014. [Photo / Chinatimes.com]

Tsai Ing-wen was elected as the chairwoman of Taiwan's main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) on Sunday.

She won the victory against her only competitor Kuo Tai-lin, former deputy county chief of Kaohsiung, in the vote for the party's new chief.

According to the DPP plan, Tsai will replace the incumbent chairman Su Tseng-chang after the DPP confirm the election result on May 28.