Cheng Li-wun has won the KMT chair election. Cheng has already received a phone call congratulating her from outgoing KMT chair Eric Chu. Cheng presented a clear lead over her primary competitor, Hau Lung-bin earlier on, leading to her victory by large margins...
Unusual allegations have broken out in the KMT chair race. Specifically, deep blue political commentator Jaw Shaw-kong has alleged Chinese interference in the race, taking place through online influence campaigns...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has come under scrutiny regarding possible violations of the Anti-Corruption Act, in that Ko has been listed as a suspect in an ongoing investigation. This is regarding the Core Pacific City mall, which was demolished in 2019, as well as the Beitou Shilin Technology Park...
KMT party chair elections took place today, resulting in the election victory of Taichung legislator Johnny Chiang over his opponent, former Taipei city mayor Hau Lung-bin...
Controversy within the KMT about what to do with Fu Kun-chi, the former Hualien county magistrate who was successful in his bid for the legislature in 2020 legislative elections last month, reflect the unresolved contradictions of the party...
The KMT chair election debates, which took place on Wednesday, prove illustrative of the party’s general lack of solutions to address the party’s crisis. The chair election will take place on March 7th, 2020...
Over the past few weeks, there have been multiple cases of high-profile physical violence in Taiwan, ranging from the case of the abuse of a wife and son by a father to the assault on Minister of Culture Cheng Li-chiun by an entertainer. In both of these high profile cases, certain levels of “vigilante justice” through violence have been argued as justified, despite a general public consensus against acts of physical violence in Taiwan. What do these cases say about Taiwan society as a whole?...
Factional infighting continues in the KMT following the election of Wu Den-Yih as chair, with the latest spat taking place as a result of outgoing chair Hung Hsiu-Chu attempting to appoint new Central Standing Committee members despite nearing the end of her term. Hung’s actions would be in order to ensure that her faction of the party continues to have a say in party decision-making despite her loss in her bid for reelection as party chair...
The election of Wu Den-Yih as KMT chair probably does not represent the party stepping back from the brink but a return to something closer to normalcy within the party. This will not, however, forestall the internal crisis within the party, nor does it mark that the KMT will be able to turn over a new leaf in the near future and win back the Taiwanese public...
The debacle of KMT chair elections is illustrative of the party’s internal crisis, as well as the means by which the party is highly unlikely to overcome its current crisis, no matter who wins the race. Namely, KMT chair candidates have as of late taken to doubling down on accusations of vote-buying, bribery, and fraud within the election process after it was found that many of petitions submitted by chair hopefuls to qualify for the election contained false signatures or repeat signatures between multiple petitions...
