# Tsai takes the oath as president

Date: 2016

## The fact

On 20 May 2016 [Tsai Ing-wen](/people/tsai-ing-wen) took the oath as president.

## Context

The LY sat. Ma left. She did not write a 1992 consensus. An oath is still ordinary rotation.

The January election is the neighbouring opening. Indigenous apology followed days later.

The president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) is head of state under the Additional Articles. She does not write a PRC statute, a US NDAA, a TSMC board minute, or a 2026 Lai cabinet order. She left office on 20 May 2024; [Lai Ching-te](/people/lai-ching-te) is president. A blackout is not a finding that every reactor was thereby safe. A Pelosi transit is not a PRC missile. Allegation of a stolen 2018 referendum is not stored as a completed steal. An indigenous apology is not a land-title gazette. A New Southbound brand is not an FTA by itself. A 2024 LY split is not a finding that the 2020 mandate was void.

## Evidence and sources

Office of the President Taiwan carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed oath starts a four-year term.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 20 May 2016 presidential oath, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later growth coefficient from noon.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The ceremony sat in Taipei. The LY had a DPP majority.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Tsai takes the oath as president, not a later speech about Tsai takes the oath as president.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Tsai takes the oath as president on 2016-05-20 is not a licence to treat every later Office of the President Taiwan communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Tsai takes the oath as president into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She took the oath. The ceremony sat in Taipei. The LY had a DPP majority. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tsai Ing-wen: https://factrail.ai/people/tsai-ing-wen

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-president-idUSKCN0YB0K4
- https://english.president.gov.tw/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tw-tsai-oath-2016