If there is no way to "quickly move the salary" and nip the trouble before it happens, we should also "make up for it before it is too late" to resolve the damage.
There are two types of apology. One is an apology that tells people to shut up, that is, the matter has been settled, and the apology is just to appease everyone's emotions; the other is an apology with sincere remorse, that is, to make amends for the past mistakes, immediately correct the previous mistakes, and start again.
The nomination of the Chinese Kuomintang candidate for Taoyuan mayor has been in turmoil for a week. With nominees Zhang Shanzheng, Secretary-General Huang Jianting and Chairman Zhu Lilun taking turns to apologize, the dissatisfaction at the grassroots level of the Kuomintang has not subsided. What is even more worrying is that the spillover damage caused by the Taoyuan turmoil has been hurt again. The KMT's image in the eyes of many voters has endangered elections across Taiwan.
Selflessness and integrity are essential qualities for leaders. Selflessness is a virtue, but integrity is the most basic bottom line. The core issue in the current Taoyuan turmoil is that these two qualities of the leader have been questioned.
If you can make sacrifices and be completely altruistic and not self-interested, this kind of selflessness is a virtue. We do not require politicians to be like this, but the most basic criterion for testing whether a secular leader is selfless is whether he can create or maintain A fair mechanism and act accordingly. "I am doing this for everyone's benefit" cannot be used as a reason to consider yourself selfless. The definition of integrity is simpler, that is, you must keep your words. As the saying goes, "People cannot stand without trust." Integrity is the most important thing for a leader. Integrity and selflessness are the issues at stake in this leadership crisis and the Taoyuan turmoil.
Chairman Zhu Lilun criticized Tsai Ing-wen in November last year for controlling the nomination power of the "six capitals" and that "the DPP has become a one-man dictatorship party." However, in the end, in this nomination exercise, the KMT Central Committee also learned from the DPP. An election strategy group and a nomination committee were established, and the principle of “replacing primaries with coordination” was established. Regardless of whether it was appropriate for the KMT to abandon the primary election, in the Taoyuan round, when facing Taoyuan City Speaker Qiu Yisheng, the Party Central Committee once said that it would respect local candidates; after Luo Zhiqiang joined, it agreed to use opinion polls as a basis; Before proposing the candidate Zhang Shanzheng, there was no coordination with the existing candidates.
The phenomenon presented by the Taoyuan turmoil is that the KMT has neither primaries nor coordination; there is no openness, no fairness, and no integrity. There is only one mechanism in the party, which is that the party chairman has the final say.
Under the strong pressure of public opinion, the Central Committee of the Kuomintang apologized, but it was an apology to appease emotions, not an apology to "make up for it" or "to correct mistakes after knowing them."
has two ways to solve the current dilemma. First, the current approach of the Party Central Committee is to continue to appease emotions and resolve voices of dissatisfaction. The political culture represented by this approach is that "the powerful can be arbitrary, disputes within the party can be resolved by touching the head or giving some sweeteners, and the system is just decoration or dough, and you can do whatever you like with it."
Another approach is to regard an apology as an apology that recognizes mistakes and can be corrected, and returns to integrity and systems. The Central Standing Committee will revoke the current nomination for Taoyuan mayor, giving the outstanding candidate Zhang Shanzheng an opportunity to integrate Taoyuan. Let Zhang Shanzheng, Lu Yuling and Luo Zhiqiang who are currently interested in running for office, and other willing party comrades participate in the political opinion presentation, and then conduct a fair and open primary election system with an equal ratio of party members and polls. The current chairman of
Zhu Lilun’s decision to “change pillars” showed that renominating candidates was no stranger to him. He also apologized at the time, but what he adopted back then was the first and muddled method mentioned above, which has harmed people to this day. Still.
Chairman Zhu Lilun once again came to the crossroads after "changing pillars". After apologizing last time, he went on the show, but failed miserably. What will be the result of this "surprise nomination"? But in any case, whether Chairman Zhu believes that integrity is a necessary virtue and what kind of solution he uses to complete the apology is another test of his political wisdom and personality.
(This article was published by Zhang Yazhong, the chief principal of Sun Wen School , and was published in the comments of Taiwan media "China Times")
