With a large rally against pension reform taking place yesterday on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office Building that drew hundreds, one observes that KMT continues to leverage on the issue of pension reform as a way to appeal to supporters...
Comments last month by KMT chair Wu Den-Yih in defense of former father and son dictators Chiang Kai-Shek and Chiang Ching-Kuo, never mind that the two were mass murderers that ordered the execution of tens of thousands, indicate that little has changed for the KMT in terms of failing to repudiate its authoritarian past...
Accusations by the KMT that the DPP is instituting a “Green Terror” of political persecution against the pan-Blue camp that is equal to or worse than the White Terror perpetrated by the KMT during the authoritarian period are groundless and ridiculous. Such accusations are ultimately a form of historical denial, but they may gain traction due to historical amnesia in "post-fact" times...
Speculation about whether recently elected KMT chair Wu Den-Yih will prove to be a “second Lee Teng-Hui”, as a benshengren party leader that will take the party in the direction of localization and perhaps even turn the party around from its present state the crisis probably misses the point...
While the internal crisis of the KMT has been ongoing for some time, it may be that it is not only the KMT, but also the DPP which is presently in the midst of a political crisis...
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 upcoming race for KMT party chair seems set to be a hotly contested one, with party heavyweights Hau Lung-Bin and Wu Den-Yih seeking to pry the position of KMT party chair away from Hung Hsiu-Chu. But new contenders have entered the race. Further questions are up in the air about ties between candidates for KMT party chair and Terry Gou, a possible future presidential candidate of the KMT ...
A battle seems to be ahead for the position of KMT party chairperson. Current party chair Hung Hsiu-Chu aims to hold onto her position for elections next year, but she faces strong challenges from within the party, as a product of the KMT's internal crisis which has only accentuated under her leadership of the party...