President apologises for second time in a week as politics and media embroiled in #MeToo allegations
Taiwan’s ruling party has been rocked by a wave of sexual harassment allegations, as the country grapples with aOn Tuesday, President Tsai Ing-wen apologised for the second time in a week in response to sexual harassment claims against senior staff in the Democratic Progressive party . “Our society as a whole must educate ourselves again. People in sexual harassment incidents are victims,” she wrote in a Facebook post.
In the past week there have been nearly two dozen allegations of sexual harassment against high-profile political figures. Several people have already resigned. According to one flash estimate pollster, online support for the DPP plummeted by more than a third in the days after Chen’s initial Facebook post.
Tsai, Taiwan’s first female president, has championed the self-governing island as a beacon of social equality. Across the Taiwan strait, women in mainlandare under increased pressure to adhere to traditional gender roles to bolster China’s birthrate.
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