The appointment of Chen Chu and 27 other individuals to the Control Yuan was confirmed today, putting an end to weeks of protracted struggle between the pan-Green and pan-Blue camps within the legislature...
Twenty KMT legislators occupied the assembly chambers of the Legislative Yuan this afternoon to protest the Tsai administration’s Control Yuan nominations. The occupation began at around 5 PM, with KMT legislators barricading the doors of the Legislative Yuan with chairs and other objects, occupying and writing slogans on the speaker’s podium...
Outrage broke out last week after news reports emerged that Justin Huang of the KMT would take up a post as deputy chief of Control Yuan. Huang would have served under former Presidential Office secretary-general Chen Chu, previously the mayor of Kaohsiung, who would serve as the head of the Control Yuan...
With Tsai beginning her second term as president, Tsai’s cabinet saw a minor reshuffle earlier this month. At the same time, with most positions remaining the same, Tsai’s cabinet primarily represents continuity more than anything else...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has received a great deal of blowback in the past week, as most visible in a sharp decline in the number of “Likes” Ko has his Facebook page. Ko’s Facebook page has now lost 150,000 “Likes” in a matter of days, bringing his total “Like” count to less than two million. Ko originally had around 2,100,000 “Likes” on Facebook. Ko provoked ire after comments referring to Presidential Office secretary-general and former Kaohsiung mayor Chen Chu as a “fat version of Han Kuo-yu” and claiming that he had heard that Taiwanese actress and model Lin Chi-ling was pregnant on the basis of rumors that he had heard...
With mayorship of all of Taiwan’s six special municipalities up for the vote in 2018 local elections, the DPP looks like it may have a tough time holding onto its current political dominance in four out of the six municipalities. Some take the view that DPP losses in these municipalities will allow the KMT to rebuild momentum, which is why DPP losses could be worrying...
It may be that the strategy adopted by Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-Wen of calling back popular, high-profile DPP politicians to serve in her central administration is backfiring. Namely, Tsai’s actions threaten the ability of the DPP to develop and maintain political promising careers for its members for the sake of the party’s future and long-term sustainability...
In a time in which efforts by KMT politicians to win over the youth vote have generally proven comical, the KMT’s Kaohsiung mayoral candidate, Han Kuo-yu, has proven unexpectedly successful in this...
Tensions between Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je and the DPP are on the rise, with Ko lashing out at the DPP on several recent occasions. This may not be too surprising, seeing the DPP has decided to nominate its own candidate for 2018 mayoral elections, Pasuya Yao, instead of endorsing Ko as it did in 2016 mayoral elections...
