Eric Chu holds "super weekend" rally ahead of presidential vote Taiwan is set to elect a new president -- but the island's flagging fortunes and a slowdown in China mean the winner will have a mountain to climb. Tsai Ing-wen of the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is polling well ahead of rival candidate Eric Chu from the embattled ruling Kuomintang (KMT). IMAGES of Eric Chu's "super weekend" rally