The presidency of Lai Ching-te began on 20 May 2024, when Lai Ching-te was sworn in as 16th president of the Republic of China and the eighth president of the republic since it became established on the island of Taiwan, succeeding Tsai Ing-wen. Lai and running mate Hsiao Bi-khim won the 2024 presidential election with 5.58 million votes, breaking the practice of two-term political party rotation with the Kuomintang since the first direct presidential election in 1996, and retaining the presidency for the Democratic Progressive Party for a record consecutive third term. However, unlike the previous two-term presidency of Tsai Ing-wen, the DPP failed to obtain a majority of seats in the Legislative Yuan alone, making Lai Ching-te's government the second minority government since Taiwan's democratisation.
Presidency of Lai Ching-te 20 May 2024 – present | |
Vice President | |
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Cabinet | Cho |
Party | Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) |
Election | |
Seat | Yonghe Residence, Zhongzheng, Taipei |
Lai is the third incumbent vice president of Taiwan to become president, and the first to assume the office through election instead of a predecessor's death. Hsiao, the former Taiwanese Representative to the United States and a former member of the Legislative Yuan, was sworn in on the same day as vice-president, and become Taiwan's first biracial vice president, having been born in Kobe, Japan to a Taiwanese father and European-American mother.
Administration edit
Title | Picture | Name | Political party | Term | Deputy | Notes |
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President | Lai Ching-te | Democratic Progressive Party | 20 May 2024 – present | Not applicable | ||
Vice President | Hsiao Bi-khim | Democratic Progressive Party | 20 May 2024 – present | Not applicable | ||
Secretary-General to the President | Pan Men-an | Democratic Progressive Party | 20 May 2024 – present | Ho Chih-wei Xavier Chang | ||
Secretary General of the National Security Council | Joseph Wu | Democratic Progressive Party | 20 May 2024 – present | Lin Fei-fan Hsu Szu-chien Liu Te-chin |
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Director-General of the National Security Bureau | Tsai Ming-yen | Independent | 20 May 2024 – present | |||
Spokesperson for the presidential palace | ||||||
Curator of National History Museum | Deputy Director: | |||||
Dean of Academia Sinica | Deputies are not appointed by the president, but are recommended by the academician conference. Fixed term system, five-year term |