The indictment of Pingtung County Council speaker Chou Tien-lun on vote buying charges related to Terry Gou’s bid for the KMT’s presidential nomination late last month should not surprise. Namely, issues regarding vote buying and corruption continue to plague Taiwanese politics, particularly in rural areas...
Recent dilemmas faced by the Central Election Commission point again to the challenges of holding a political referendum in Taiwan. Namely, in response to the issue that the KMT seems to have forged a large number of signatures for a referendum against a petition to gradually to phase out thermal power plants that the party has been pushing for, the commission has decided to allow the referendum to pass, but to possibly impose criminal penalties on the KMT for forging signatures...