January 15, 2012  | UCANews.com

Incumbent president Ma Ying-jeou won yesterday’s national polls by a comfortable margin, defeating opposition rival Tsai Ing-wen in an election that was touted to be much closer than it was.

Ma of the ruling Kuomintang or Nationalist party defeated Tsai of the Democratic Progressive party by a reported margin of 800,000 votes, winning 51.6 percent of an estimated 6.89 million votes.

Ma also announced for the first time during this year’s campaigning that he has been a Catholic since childhood, and that he had attended Midnight Mass this Christmas in Kaohsiung diocese.

Though some in Taiwan have chalked the admission up to currying votes among Taiwan’s growing Catholic community, Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi has said that he is the country’s first Catholic president and that his deeds and acts have never let the Church down in the past.

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