 In 2012, Su Tseng-chang, then-Chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), expressed support for same-sex marriage.Despite some division within the party on the issue, DPP's victorious presidential candidate for the January 2016 election, Tsai Ing-wen, announced her support of same-sex marriage in November 2015.She is the first major party candidate to come out in support of same-sex marriage.