The controversy over the nomination of Taoyuan mayor by the Chinese Kuomintang did not end with the recruitment of former President of the "Executive Yuan" Zhang Shanzheng. Instead, former Taipei City Councilor Luo Zhiqiang took advantage of the party leader Zhu Lilun's "visit to the United States" to use "procedural justice" To criticize Zhu Lilun and the Kuomintang for this reason is like staging the second season of "Zhu Luo Ji". Subtly, Luo also combined it with the dilemma of being nominated for Miaoli County Magistrate and compared it to the "Southeast Self-Preservation Movement" in the late Qing Dynasty, hoping to persuade Taozhu Miao Lanying to also Join and transform into a new trend of reform within the party. If the Kuomintang Central Committee does not handle it properly, once the anti-Zhu forces gather in large numbers, the leadership center may be shaken and the "Zhu" sheep will change their color.
According to Hong Kong China Review Network, during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, Zhu Lilun "visited the United States" and was not in Taiwan. Luo Zhiqiang resumed his prayer tour in Taoyuan that was interrupted due to the epidemic. Zhu was not soft at all, criticizing disqualification, breach of trust, and incompetence. The leader also focused on the recruited Taoyuan Mayor Zhang Shanzheng, and put forward three suggestions of "fairness, confidence, and selflessness." The core is to correct procedural justice. It also supported the figures, showing that 48.9% of Taoyuan people did not support violations. Procedural Justice recruited Zhang, hoping to compete with Zhang Yi in the polls.
It is worth noting that before Zhu’s “visit to the United States”, Miaoli County Magistrate’s nomination of “Blue Committee member” Xu Zhirong was not finalized. This made the Luo camp believe that there was reason to strive for the “resurrection of the defeated party”. As long as Zhang Shanzheng returned the call, the Party Central Committee would re-elect him. According to the poll, there is still a chance of running for mayor of Taoyuan on behalf of the Kuomintang. Luo also described the Miaoli Blue Camp as the "Southeast Self-Preservation Movement". They do not abandon the Party Central Committee and only support candidates they recognize. Hsinchu The mayor has not yet been nominated. , or it is possible to follow the Taoyuan and Miaoli rebellions and persuade the Taozhu Miaolan camp to join.
"Southeast self-protection" refers to the fact that during the late Qing Dynasty Eight-Power Allied Forces , the governors of the southeastern provinces ignored Empress Dowager Cixi orders and did not declare war with the great powers to avoid falling into a war situation with the entire Qing Empire. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, powerful official figures from all over the country gathered for the first time to openly resist the Empress Dowager Cixi. Although this event saved areas outside Hebei and Shanxi from the Boxer Rebellion and the Eight-Power Allied Forces war, it also destroyed the prestige of the Qing court.
Zhu Lilun is working hard for "party diplomacy" in the United States, but he may fall into a storm, because from the reelection of the party chairman on September 25, 2021, he received a total of 85,164 votes and was re-elected as party chairman with a vote rate of 45.78%, setting a record for the Kuomintang since 2001. Since the party chairman was directly elected by members, the vote rate was the lowest in history, with Zhang Yazhong 32.59% in second place, and Jiang Qichen18.87% in third place. They are destined to be weak party chairmen, and it is also the beginning of pain. The thorny issues of election campaign nomination layout and intra-party unity and integration broke out all at once.
The most embarrassing thing is that Zhu Lilun, who received less than half of the votes, had a decent vote rate in Taozhu Miao. Taoyuan City, where he started his career in politics, barely managed to "keep 5", and Hsinchu County, Hsinchu County, and Miaoli County both received more than 50% of the votes. As a result, now that the county mayors are nominated in 2022, Taoyuan City has become like a strong "anti-Zhu" bastion, and Luo has become Representative figure of anti-Zhu.
China Review Network believes that if things continue like this, the collision between Luo Zhiqiang, who has a loud voice and many supporters, and the Kuomintang may lead to a five-lose situation, that is, Zhu Lilun, the Kuomintang, Zhang Shanzheng, Luo Zhiqiang and Taoyuan City Kuomintang members will all lose. . (Xue Yang/Editor)
