Great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek is Taipei mayor

Chiang Kai-shek's great-grandson declared victory in his run for Taipei mayor, as Taiwan held local elections Saturday that could shape the race to replace China-skeptic President, Tsai Ing-wen, in little more than a year.

Chiang Wan-an, the great-grandson of the late Kuomintang leader who fought and lost a civil war against Mao Zedong's Communists and is remembered by many Taiwanese for his repression becomes the youngest person elected mayor of Taipei at age 43.

"Everyone, we did it!" he said in a short speech to a crowd of thousands outside his campaign headquarters.