2020 Presidential Candidate Han Kuo-yu To Return as Lawmaker

Han Kuo-yu, the opposition Kuomintang's defeated 2020 presidential candidate, is set to return to politics next year as a lawmaker.

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00:00 President Tsai Ing-wen's main rival in the 2020 election is returning to front-line politics.

00:06 Han Kuo-yu was the opposition Kuomintang, or KMT's, candidate in the last presidential

00:10 race.

00:11 After he lost and was recalled as the city mayor, Han spent years out of the limelight.

00:16 Now the KMT has announced he's top of its party list for January's election.

00:20 That means Han is guaranteed a seat in the legislature if his party gets more than 5

00:24 percent of the vote, a figure it is expected to comfortably surpass.

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