TPP has ‘good traction’ with younger voters and has ‘weakened’ DPP’s vote in Taiwan

The Taiwan People Party has “good traction” with younger voters and has “weakened” the Democratic Progressive Party’s vote, Foundation for Defence of Democracies Senior Fellow Mark Montgomery says. The TPP is a centre-left political party founded in 2019, aiming to become an alternative to the DPP and KMT. “They’ve had good traction with younger voters,” Mr Montgomery told Sky News Australia. “The younger vote for the last three cycles has been breaking very heavily towards the DPP and, not surprisingly, the vast majority of people under the age of 30 no longer consider themselves Chinese - they purely consider themselves Taiwanese. “That had been giving the DPP a strong base. “The TPP has run a campaign to really get at that younger voter, so it has weakened the DPP – the ruling party’s – hold on that group … and that will probably be why they lose the legislature, the ruling party.”