Orchestrating a New Cabinet

*  Taiwan's President-elect Lai Ching-teh has been busy putting a new administrative team together while adhering to incumbent President Tsai Ing-wen's key policy positions, including cross-Strait relations. Since the ruling DPP is composed of factions, this won't be an easy task as factional balance needs to be maintained.

* In addition, with a minority DPP presence (51 seats) in the Legislative Yuan (LY), collaboration with either the Kuomintang (KMT, with 54 seats) or the Taiwan People's Party (TPP, holding 8 seats) appears inevitable. However, there doesn't seem to be any inter-party foundation to support such an undertaking, at least not on politically sensitive matters. It's therefore likely that Taiwan will see more legislative gridlocks in the next four years.