The by-election to fill the legislative seat formerly occupied by Chiang Wan-an, for the Taipei City Constituency III, consisting of Zhongshan District and northern Songshan District, took place today. The results were a victory for Wang Hung-wei of the KMT, who was competing against Enoch Wu of the DPP...
It did not exactly come as a surprise when Taipei deputy mayor Vivian Huang, also known as Huang Shan-shan, tendered her resignation late last month in preparation for a mayoral run...
With the election victory of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., in the Philippines in May, one can interpret this as a victory for authoritarian nostalgia. Namely, Marcos is the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., who ruled the Philippines with an iron first from 1965 to 1986...
The question of who the DPP and KMT intend to field as their mayoral candidates in Taipei and Taoyuan has come under scrutiny in recent days, as the primary season comes to a close before nine-in-one elections later this year...
With primary season in full swing in Taiwan, much speculation has turned to the question of who will be the pan-Blue and pan-Green camp’s respective political candidates for Taipei mayor...
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...
In surprising fashion, the KMT and DPP may be converging on similar tactics in its choice of political candidates in 2018 elections, at least where Taipei mayoral candidates are concerned. This perhaps illustrates that the DPP and KMT are in many ways caught in the same bind politically at present...
