The Constitutional Court ruled earlier this week that the Tsai administration’s nationalization of seventeen irrigation organizations was constitutional. The move was one that was resisted by the KMT, seeing as it was aimed at breaking the traditional pan-Blue stranglehold over irrigation organizations...
Nationalization of irrigation organizations by the DPP would be an attempt to break up KMT clientelist networks which have been longstanding in Taiwan...
With the struggle to push the “Forward-Looking” Infrastructure Development Program into law, the DPP may be kicking a hornet’s nest if it is unable to handle the matter in a way satisfactory to the public...
