Lai Ching-te, who is still in quarantine, can't wait to announce his candidacy for the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party today, which is like "forcing the palace" Tsai Ing-wen. Before Lai Ching-te announced his candidacy, he had been operating privately for a long time and received cross-faction support within the party. Tsai Ing-wen was in a desperate situation. She wanted to "lock" Lai Ching-te but lacked her strength.
Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Ching-te are "mortal enemies", and the battle for the position of party chairman is the beginning of a new round of "Tsai-Lai fight" drama. Tsai Ing-wen is unwilling to be "lame in power" too early. Various signs show that although she resigned as party chairman after the "nine-in-one" Democratic Progressive Party defeat, she still wants to take over power; in the party affairs, she just lives behind the scenes and has not really released her power.
Zheng Wencan, the mayor of Taoyuan, who is called "Fat Zhou Yu" by Cai, was originally a very important card that restrained Lai Qingte in her hand. Even if Taoyuan failed to hand over the baton, in Tsai Ing-wen's eyes, Zheng Wencan could still choose the party chairman or take on the "Premier Prime Minister". However, it is better to do it than Tian Yizhai, and Zheng Wencan’s “paper plagiarism door” disrupted the layout. Who will serve as their agent to control party affairs and "stuck" his lord Lai Ching-te? Tsai Ing-wen searched hard.
For Lai Ching-te, who aims to directly target the "big position" of 2024, the pain of being strangled and stormed by Tsai Ing-wen in the 2020 primary election process is still vivid in his mind. He is deeply afraid that if the party chairman is controlled by Tsai Ing-wen's men or other unfriendly factions, the nightmare will come back and formulate rules of the game that are unfavorable to him, he may miss the opportunity to run for 2024 again. Therefore, seizing the position of Party Chairman and preventing it from being "destroyed" became Lai Ching-te's choice. Lai Ching-te was also very decisive this time, ignoring any agent's plan to take action and personally ran for the party leader.
Lai Ching-te ran for the party leader, which was like "forcing the palace" against Tsai Ing-wen. Recently, he suggested to Tsai Ing-wen that in the future, the party and government could be separated, and Tsai Ing-wen would be responsible for government affairs, while he would handle party affairs as the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party. What Lai Ching-te wants is to cut off the party power cake from Tsai Ing-wen to help him seize the right to qualify within the party in 2024.
It is worth observing that after Lai Ching-te announced his candidacy, Zheng Wencan, who ranked first among the "Four Great Love Generals", immediately turned to Lai and expressed two attitudes immediately: First, he will not run for the election, and will fully support Lai Ching-te's election as a party chairman; Second, it is emphasized that there is only one candidate for the Democratic Progressive Party in 2024, that is Lai Ching-te, and he will fully assist.
Politics is the art of compromise, and Taipei's political arena believes more in "a mother with milk". Even Zheng Wencan turned against him, which shows that Tsai Ing-wen's situation is over. Not only that, including "Yongyanhui" and "Green Justice Connection", they all expressed their "supporting Lai"; the "Nanliu" and " Beiliu ", "pro-Lai" and "pro-Zhengzheng faction" of the largest faction have also successfully merged; the "zheng Congress" led by Lin Jialong is currently bargaining, and sooner or later they will turn to Lai Qingte. Lai Ching-te has received "cross-party" support.
Tsai Ing-wen has always been worried about being liquidated by Lai Ching-te after she was in power. She wants to put down the stakes safely to ensure the rest of her life's wealth and safety. Therefore, she will not easily give up on the "blocking" plan. Taipei political arena is rumored that Tsai Ing-wen may reach some kind of agreement with Su Zhenchang, and then the "Soviet" and Chen Chi-mai, the "British" forces, will form an alliance to fight against Lai Ching-te together.
However, after the "nine-in-one" election, the "English" team became rats crossing the street, and the Soviet group was just a small faction within the party. Tsai Ing-wen wanted to "kill" but she had the will but she was not strong enough. Lai Ching-te's run for the Party Chairman is like the green camp being "determined to be one". Even if there is a situation in the future, it will be difficult to stop Lai Ching-te from becoming the DPP's qualifier for the 2024 primary election.
(Reporter Wu Shenglin of Straits News Agency)
