Lin Zi-miao, the KMT magistrate of Yilan county, was detained by police and questioned for several hours last week as part of a corruption investigation. More than thirty were questioned as part of the investigation, with thirty locations raided by police...
The DPP currently faces controversy after a criminal case involving high-profile members of its Taipei party branch. The case eventually became larger enough that President Tsai Ing-wen, who is also chair of the DPP, called a meeting of the party’s local chapter heads, calling on the party to take stronger action to avoid elements of the party becoming mixed up with crime...
An insider trading scandal faced by Hualien county commissioner Fu Kun-chi would be yet another example of corruption from pan-Blue political actors...
The association of the KMT and organized crime does not seem set to fade anytime soon in the popular imagination, with membership drives in recent months which have been accused of allowing elements of organized crime into the party without due scrutiny...
The striking results of 2016 elections have come about not only because of “regular” rumblings of economic discontent or the “traditional cleavages” of identity politics...
That no satisfactory method of resolving the question of what do about KMT party assets has emerged reflects that there is still no satisfactory answer of how to resolve questions of lingering authoritarianism by the KMT...
