Taiwan’s presidential office has already begun preparations to hand over the presidency to President-elect Tsai Ing-wen, after her landslide victory on Saturday. That’s with more than four months remaining before her inauguration on May 20th.
President Ma Ying-jeou has appointed Presidential Office Secretary-General Tseng Yung-chuan to oversee the transition. Presidential Office spokesman Charles Chen explains.
“This morning President Ma Ying-jeou asked Secretary General Tseng Yung-chuan to set up a committee that will work with President-elect Tsai Ing-wen’s team to carry out a transition in keeping with related laws and the experiences of the previous two handovers, and following the guidelines that [former] President Chen Shui-bian laid out on March 28, 2008, for the handover [that year]," said Chen.
The Presidential Office says that Tseng held a meeting on Monday morning to begin preparatory work for the transition of power.