Terry Guo has officially qualified for January's presidential election after
the Central Election Commission validated the independent candidate's
petition.

The commission verified that Guo and his running mate, Tammy Lai submitted a
total of 1,038,031 signatures, of which 87-per cent were valid.

The election commission says Guo's campaign will get a certificate certifying
that it passed the signature threshold and will have a 1-million N-T deposit
returned.

Guo and Lai needed at least 289,667 signatures, or 1.5-per cent of all
eligible voters in the 2020 presidential election, to get on the ballot.

A total of ten petition campaigns registered with the election commission,
other than Guo and Lai's - none passed the petition threshold.

The nine unsuccessful registered campaigns has forfeited their 1-million N-T
deposits after failing to garner half the required number of endorsements.