Terry Gou stepped down as Foxconn’s chairman in 2019 (File)
Taipei:
Terry Gou, the founding father of main Apple provider Foxconn, resigned as an organization board member, the Taiwanese agency mentioned on Saturday.
After months of hypothesis, Gou, who stepped down as Foxconn’s chairman in 2019, introduced on Monday he would contest as an unbiased candidate in a presidential election to be held in January.
In a quick assertion, Foxconn mentioned Terry Gou had resigned on account of “private causes”, and famous he had “formally handed over management of the group to knowledgeable supervisor 4 years in the past”.
Terry Gou’s marketing campaign staff declined to remark.
On the difficulty of battle of curiosity with Terry Gou being a significant shareholder of Foxconn, which has huge funding in China, Gou mentioned he is prepared to “sacrifice” his private property in China within the occasion of a Chinese language assault.
“I’ve by no means been beneath the management of the Individuals’s Republic of China,” he mentioned. “I do not comply with their directions.”
Terry Gou is the fourth particular person to throw his hat within the ring, however his ballot numbers earlier than his announcement put him effectively behind the front-runner, the ruling Democratic Progressive Occasion’s (DPP) William Lai, who’s presently vp.
He has repeatedly accused the DPP of courting battle with China, which claims the island as its personal territory, with an antagonistic stance in the direction of Beijing.
The DPP-led authorities, and Lai, have repeatedly supplied talks with China however been rebuffed, as Beijing views them as separatists.
Terry Gou has this week been attempting to unify the opposition in opposition to the DPP, however to this point no agreements have been reached.
The opposite two candidates are former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je of the small Taiwan Individuals’s Occasion, and Hou Yu-ih of Taiwan’s fundamental opposition occasion the Kuomintang which historically favours shut ties with Beijing.
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