Tsai Ing-wen Overseas Network reported on December 18 that the Democratic Progressive Party suffered a disastrous defeat in this year's "nine-in-one" election on the island, and Tsai Ing-wen resigned as party chairman. The latest poll released by Taiwan's "Vision" magazine on the

Tsai Ing-wen (Photo: Taiwan media file)

Overseas Network, December 18th The Democratic Progressive Party suffered a disastrous defeat in this year's "nine-in-one" election on the island, and Tsai Ing-wen resigned as party chairman. The latest poll released by Taiwan's "Vision" magazine on the 18th showed that in the two years and seven months since Tsai Ing-wen was in power, only 19% of people were satisfied with her governance, and 70.7% were dissatisfied.

Comprehensive news from Taiwanese media such as Dongsen News Cloud, Tsai Ing-wen’s administration satisfaction has continued to bottom out since she took office. Compared with Tsai Ing-wen’s 100th day in office, her satisfaction dropped by 25.4 percentage points, and her dissatisfaction increased significantly by 34.5 points. percentage point. Even the young people (18 to 39 years old) who were most supportive of Tsai Ing-wen have become more dissatisfied with her. Currently, the dissatisfaction rate among 18 to 29 year olds reaches 74.8%. Lai Qingde, the head of the administrative agency of

, has an administrative satisfaction rate of 32.5% and a dissatisfaction rate of 53.8%. Compared with the survey in January 2018, the satisfaction rate decreased by 10.4 percentage points and the dissatisfaction rate increased by 10.6 percentage points.

Taiwanese media said that polls showed that the overall performance of Tsai Ing-wen’s administration has disappointed the people. gave Tsai Ing-wen and her ruling team a “failure” on their ability to “govern Taiwan,” with an average score of only 49.76. Among them, 55.3% of the people gave the Tsai administration a score of 0 to 59; 20.5% barely passed 60 points, and 19.6% scored 61 or more. Compared with the survey in January this year, the score dropped by 4.34 points.

Regarding the Kuomintang’s huge victory in the “nine-in-one” election, the latest poll pointed out that the “party identity” has also flipped due to this. The recognition rate of the Kuomintang is 29.8% and the DPP is 17.8%. Overall, 37.1% of people support the pan-blue vote, 25.2% support the pan-green vote, and 37.7% are neutral. Taiwanese media believe that the survey results are quite consistent with the vote share gap between political parties in this "nine-in-one" election.

In addition, satisfaction with governance also affects young people’s confidence in Taiwan’s future. When the poll asked "If given the opportunity, which areas would they like to develop in?", mainland China came out on top , with 34.4%, and the younger and more educated the people, the more they wanted to go.

As for the public’s overall impression of mainland China? The poll showed that 48.8% had a better overall impression of the mainland, only 16.8% had a worse impression, and 22.5% thought it was the same as in the past. Overall, 59.7% of Taiwanese people have a good impression of the mainland.

Coincidentally, recently, another TVBS poll on the island showed that Tsai Ing-wen’s popularity has “fallen to a historical low”, not only falling by 16 percentage points, with a dismal 15%, and dissatisfaction reaching 71%. A green media poll in November released a trend chart of Tsai Ing-wen’s satisfaction since 2016. In 2016, there was a death cross between satisfaction and dissatisfaction in . After , her satisfaction dropped by 10%. Like this The trend is exactly the same as that of Chen Shui-bian after December 2005.

In this regard, DPP leader Lin Zhuoshui said that although Tsai Ing-wen and Chen Shui-bian both lost 20% after being defeated in local elections, Chen Shui-bian was in his second term, but Tsai Ing-wen happened in his first term. "Are you still running for re-election?" (Overseas Network/Li Meng)

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