TAIPEI: Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui, dubbed"Mr Democracy" for burying autocratic rule in favour of freewheeling pluralism, died at the age of 97, the official Central News Agency reported on Thursday .
FILE PHOTO: Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui speaks during a news conference in Tokyo Jun 1, 2007. Lee received a prize in memory of Japanese colonial administrator Shinpei Goto by the Shinpei Goto Society. Some in the party blamed Lee for the defeat, saying his decision not to back its favoured candidate, James Soong, led Soong to stand as an independent and split the vote. His subsequent public support for pro-independence party candidates led to the Nationalist party expelling him in 2001.
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