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Lien Chan has tried to lighten his staid image |
Having lost two elections, in 2000 and 2004, he now says he plans to retire as president of the opposition Kuomintang or Nationalist party later this year.
As one of the richest men in Taiwan, his critics say he is aloof and failed to connect with popular opinion during the election campaigns.
Mr Lien was actually born on the mainland, in 1936 in the ancient Chinese capital of Xian, but his also has long links with Taiwan.
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He is the son of a former senior official in the KMT - which at that time ruled the whole of China.
His family returned to Taiwan along with the defeated KMT government and army after the communists took power on the mainland in 1949.
After studying in the United States, he became an academic and then a diplomat, serving as Taiwan's ambassador to El Salvador in the mid 1970s.
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