To the capital of Taiwan now, Taipei, where the results of the presidential and parliamentary elections are imminently known.

Helenon Smith, our correspondent is there. What can you tell us, Helenow? known. the polls closed here in Taiwan and it seems that we have a winner. You might be able to see

on the screen behind me that man in the white coat. His name is Ho-yoi. He is the opposition

KMT candidate and he is conceding defeat as we speak in this Taiwanese election

and it means that the winner as has been expected is a man called Leichinser.

Leichinser is the current vice president of Taiwan. He represents the

DPP party here, the ruling party, it's been in power for the last eight years and it is the party

crucially here in Taiwan that takes the hardest line against China.

Leichincha, a popular figure.

He has really based his entire campaign around this very clear message that this vote as he says has been a

choice between democracy and autocracy making that hard line against China a

very very central part of this campaign and it just

clearly resonated with voters here. It will be very, very shortly that we will see

him up on this podium. This is exactly where we expect him to make his victory declaration and we would hopefully

have a chance to ask questions of him about that victory. Remember here in Taiwan, it is a flourishing democracy, a big powerful economy, they run their

own military and so on and so forth, but it is not officially an independent country because

it's a big powerful neighbor China it feels it has a stake in what

happens here it sees this province this island is a breakaway province and it makes consistent threats towards this island.

China's actually worth saying has been a little quiet this week, perhaps interpreted as an attempt to not to accidentally

push voters into the hands of the DPP because it is this result a DPP a

lighting to a victory that will be considered the most provoking outcome to China.

But look, outside this tent there is a Victory Party underway with people

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