A recall vote against Han Kuo-yu of the KMT, the current mayor of Kaohsiung and the KMT’s presidential candidate during 2020 elections, seems likely to meet the necessary benchmarks to be held...
New rules introduced by the Tsai administration to regulate the selling of medical masks are likely to lead to further blowback against the government...
One notes that attempts to target the Tsai administration for its handling of the coronavirus crisis from members of the pan-Blue camp have taken a number of different approaches in past days. That there is no ideological consistency among these attempts to attack the Tsai administration is likely illustrative of the internal splits within the pan-Blue camp...
In evaluating the overall slate of younger candidates run by the DPP, one notes the interesting pattern of that former critics of the Tsai administration ended up aligning with it as part of 2020 campaigning...
The question of who will become the KMT’s next party chair remains opaque, with party heavyweights still refraining from throwing their hat into the race...
The results of 2020 elections led to the reelection of incumbent president Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP retaining its majority in the legislature. However, how should we analyze the election results?...
Tsai Ing-wen of the DPP won reelection by large margins today. Tsai won over eight million votes, winning 57% of votes, and handily defeating her opponent, Han Kuo-Yu of the KMT. In the legislature, the DPP took a total of 61 seats, the KMT 38 seats, the TPP five seats, the NPP three seats, the Taiwan Statebuilding Party one seat...
In tracking political developments in the five years since the Sunflower Movement, one has observed a number of unexpected developments in the past year. First, one has seen increasingly large internal splits among the Third Force, and the sudden and unexpected resurgence of the KMT, which led to the consolidation of the pan-Green camp within the DPP...
