FoxConn founder Terry Gou announced his intentions to run for president earlier this week. Gou emphasized that he believed that “Taiwan needs a great CEO” to serve as its leader...
The KMT announced late last month that its primary process to decide its presidential candidate for 2024 elections would not take place as an open primary, but through a decision by the party’s standing committee...
Controversy has broken out regarding the KMT’s election strategy planning committee, with internal dissent from younger KMT members against the inclusion of Hualien legislator Fu Kun-chi and former Tainan city council speaker Li Chuan-jiao. As a result, the election strategy planning committee has since been dissolved...
Speculation is on the rise regarding who the KMT intends to field for its next presidential candidate. All indications are that there will be significant in-fighting in the KMT on this matter...
The DPP claimed victory in the Nantou legislative by-election over the weekend, with a victory by Frida Tsai over Lin Ming-chen of the KMT. Nantou is traditionally considered pan-Blue territory, as a result of which this is the first time that the DPP has won the legislative seat since the reorganization of the Legislative Yuan in 2008 to have 113 single-member seats. The by-election was to fill the seat vacated by preceding legislator Hsu Shu-hua of the KMT after her victory in the race for Miaoli county magistrate in the November 2022 nine-in-one elections...
The New Taipei mayoral debate took place on November 14th between incumbent Hou You-yi of the KMT and Lin Chia-lung of the DPP. As with some of the other mayoral debates, the first round consisted of opening statements by the candidates, followed by a round of questions from experts, and a third round of closing statements...
Cremations for individuals that recently died of COVID-19 has become the latest issue that is contested between pan-Blue local governments and the central government...
Contestation local governments controlled by the pan-Blue camp and the central government regarding COVID-19 continues. The latest issue to be contested is that of temporary vaccination stations set up by the central government to boost vaccination among children...
The KMT faces an internal quandary, with a recent standing committee election having resulted in controversy over vote buying and corruption. KMT chair Eric Chu has vowed to investigate and get to the bottom of any corruption, stating that he will take action within two weeks...