Terry Guo, the Taiwanese billionaire who founded Foxconn, Apple’s biggest supplier, won the right to run for president of Taiwan after his campaign team collected more than three times the required number of signatures, Taipei authorities said, citing Reuters.

Gou thanked his supporters in a press release after the power announcement, saying they had shown “overwhelming enthusiasm” and vowed to work hard to achieve “peace across the Taiwan Strait.”

The billionaire announced his candidacy in August, saying then that he wanted to unite the opposition and ensure that Taiwan does not become “the next Ukraine.” He accused the ruling Democratic Progressive Party of bringing Taiwan to the brink of war because of its confrontation with China.

Gou, who stepped down as head of Foxconn in 2019, had to collect 300,000 voter signatures by Nov. 2 to be eligible to run as an independent candidate, according to Taiwan’s election law.

On Tuesday, the election commission announced that it had checked more than 900,000 signatures.

Gow, 73, is one of four candidates running for the island nation’s presidency. The next presidential election in Taiwan will be held on January 13.

Opinion polls show him in last place in voting preferences, well behind the country’s current vice president, Lai Ching-te, a member of the ruling party.

The billionaire claimed that the sea goddess told him to run for president

Gou also tried to run for president in 2020, claiming at the time that Mazu, a famous sea goddess in Chinese mythology, told him in a dream to run.

However, he came only second in the primary election organized by the Kuomintang Party, of which he was a member at the time, and announced that he did not intend to run as an independent candidate.

The Kuomintang is considered a pro-China party in Taiwan, and Gou, in turn, has expressed support for Beijing’s “one China” policy. The billionaire accused the Democratic Progressive Party of promoting Taiwan independence and “hating and opposing China.”

He left the Kuomintang in 2019 and has been active as an independent politician since then.

Bloomberg estimates his fortune at $6.59 billion.