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The Central News Agency reported that Tsai had apologized to supporters of the "disappointing performance" of the ruling party in a speech at the headquarters of the delegation, and that she was assuming the entire responsibility for losses suffered by the party.
According to the CNA, Tsai said that while his administration was heading in the right direction, the election results showed that the Taiwanese people set higher standards for their government.
The pro-independence Progressive Democratic Party is expected to undergo a "major reshuffle," Tsai said, to prepare for the upcoming challenges, the CNA reported.
Prime Minister Lai Ching-te echoed Tsai in a Facebook post, saying the election results showed public dissatisfaction with the government's performance.
Lai had offered to resign earlier Saturday and assume the party's defeat, but Tsai had asked him to stay as prime minister to ensure continuity of government policies and initiatives.
Tsai was elected president in a landslide victory in January 2016, after an essentially foreign political career. She joined the Progressive Democratic Party in 2004 and was its president in 2008. She lost her first presidential candidacy in 2012 and resigned from the party before taking over in 2014.
Tsai is a lawyer by training and first studied at National Taiwan University before pursuing her studies by obtaining a Master of Laws degree from Cornell University and a PhD from the London School of Economics.
