text｜Chen Jingsheng
Taiwan’s Kuomintang gradually moved from "one-party dominance" to falling apart. The main reason is that internal struggles continue and split scenes have been staged many times.
If the struggle between the "mainstream school" and the "non-mainstream school" led by the "godfather of Taiwan independence" Lee Teng-hui is the first wave of large-scale division within the Kuomintang, then the second wave of division is the succession battle between Lianzhan and Song Chuyu!
The grudge between Song Chuyu and Lee Teng-hui is involved in
Song Chuyu and Lee Teng-hui have a close relationship, and they even once had a father and son. Lee Teng-hui was able to become the acting chairman of the Kuomintang thanks to Song Chuyu's "final kick".
, who is deeply trusted and valued by Jiang Ching-kuo , Song Chuyu was a representative of the young talents on the island at that time, and his views and talents were eye-catching. When he realized that the "Chang Ching-kuo period" was about to pass and he had no room for spilling, he made a decisive choice. He not only helped Lee Teng-hui to successfully become the acting chairman of the Kuomintang, but also actively acted as the pioneer of "reverse Chiang-Empression" and wanted to show his skills in the "Lee Teng-hui period".
And Song Chuyu did get what he wanted, and was valued by Lee Teng-hui, and his career was rising. In 1992, Lee Teng-hui promoted Song Chuyu to the position of "provincial chairman" in Taiwan; in 1994, Song Chuyu was successfully elected as Taiwan's " governor ". However, with the continuous accumulation of Song Chuyu's reputation and the continuous increase in strength of his "provincial government" team, Lee Teng-hui gradually became afraid of him, fearing that he would become Taiwan's "Yelltsin", and the relationship between the two also had a rift.
In 1996, Lee Teng-hui was elected as the leader of Taiwan and began to curb and suppress Song Chuyu, and finally even adopted the "freezing province" method. The so-called "freezing province" means changing the original "provincial government" into a dispatched agency of the administrative department and removing the original local autonomy function of the "provincial government". This caught Song Chuyu off guard and was in chaos, and also laid the spark of division for the future battle for the succession of Liansong!
In fact, Lee Teng-hui's implementation of the "freezing province" not only wanted to curb Song Chuyu, but also intended to pave the way for the so-called "two-state theory".
Liang Zhan and Song Chuyu broke out in a battle to succeed him
After the "freezing province", Song Chuyu's relationship with Lee Teng-hui and even the Kuomintang Central Committee fell into tension.
In 1999, Lee Teng-hui supported Lien Chan to run for the next Taiwan leader and asked his subordinates to persuade Song Chuyu to be Lien Chan's "deputy officer". This made Song Chuyu, who was unwilling to be under Lien Zhan and was disappointed with the Kuomintang, could no longer bear it. He did not hesitate to leave the party and run for the leadership of Taiwan as an independent member of the party.
Song Chuyu was originally working at the grassroots level on the island and accumulated a wave of reputation. Therefore, his support rate in this election far exceeded that of Lien Zhan. But in the end, due to various factors, he finally lost to Chen Shui-bian by a slight gap.
After this election, Song Chuyu assembled support forces to establish the People First Party, causing the Kuomintang to suffer another blow, and this is also the second large-scale division within the Kuomintang!
Now the DPP is rampant on the island, but the KMT is unable to restore its former glory. This is related to its internal strife and bloody split. After all, it is the Kuomintang that has abandoned its own martial arts!
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