Presidency of Lai Ching-te

The presidency of Lai Ching-te is set to begin on 20 May 2024, when Lai Ching-te will be sworn in as 16th president of the Republic of China and the eighth president of the republic since it became established on the island of Taiwan, succeeding Tsai Ing-wen. Lai and running mate Hsiao Bi-khim won the 2024 presidential election with 5.58 million votes, breaking the practice of two-term political party rotation with the Kuomintang since the first direct presidential election in 1996, and retaining the presidency for the Democratic Progressive Party for a record consecutive third term. However, unlike the previous two-term presidency of Tsai Ing-wen, the DPP failed to obtain a majority of seats in the Legislative Yuan alone, making Lai Ching-te's government the second minority government since Taiwan's democratization.

Upon taking office, Lai is due to be the third incumbent vice president of Taiwan to become president, and the first to assume the office through election instead of a predecessor's death. Hsiao, the former Taiwanese Representative to the United States and a former member of the Legislative Yuan who will be sworn in on the same day as vice-president, will become Taiwan's first biracial vice president, having been born in Kobe, Japan to a Taiwanese father and European-American mother.

Administration

Title	Picture	Name	Political party	Term	Deputy	Notes
President		Lai Ching-te	Democratic Progressive Party	Taking office May 20, 2024	Not applicable
Vice President		Hsiao Bi-khim	Democratic Progressive Party		Not applicable
Secretary-General to the President					Not applicable
Secretary General of the National Security Council
Director of the National Security Bureau			Not applicable		Deputy Director:
Spokesperson for the presidential palace
Curator of National History Museum					Deputy Director:
Dean of Academia Sinica					Deputies are not appointed by the president, but are recommended by the academician conference. Fixed term system, five-year term