Tsai Ing-wen (Photo source: Taiwan media)
Overseas Network, December 28, 11, the DPP was defeated in the "nine-in-one" election, and the blue camp regained the power of local governance. In the just-concluded Taiwan County and City Speaker election, the DPP was defeated again, with only one seat left. Taiwanese media believe that Tsai Ing-wen is now "surrounded by the local government". Under this circumstance, the Green Camp is not optimistic in the 2020 election.
According to Taiwan's China Times in an editorial on the 28th, Taiwan's political situation is now "strong branches and weak branches". The Tsai Ing-wen administration has been surrounded by local governments, and local governments are constantly putting pressure on Tsai Ing-wen. The Green Camp's election battle in 2020 will be in danger.
The China Times believes that the current political situation is very unfavorable to Tsai Ing-wen. On the one hand, Tsai Ing-wen is facing local pressure on economic issues. On the 27th, Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu went north to Taipei City to attend the Taiwan authorities' administrative department meeting to ask for the "MRT Yellow Line" subsidy. A reporter asked, what if the Taiwan authorities refuse to give money? Han Kuo-yu said that he would scold the DPP authorities for being "stupid and incompetent" and "proud and arrogant", and said: "It doesn't matter if Tsai Ing-wen or Lai Ching-te doesn't love me, but the money promised to me must be given to me. No one dollar can be reduced, and I love money now as my life. All the funds promised clearly before, and I will hand them over to me when I arrive!" Han Kuo-yu believes that Kaohsiung City must continue, and the Tsai Ing-wen authorities cannot give nothing because "a clever woman can't cook without rice."
Han Kuo-yu (Photo source: Visual China)
In addition to putting pressure on the Tsai authorities in economic terms, all parts of the island have also taken different directions from Tsai Ing-wen on cross-strait exchanges. On the 20th, the "2018 Taipei Shanghai Urban Forum" was held in Taipei City. Taipei Mayor Ke Wenzhe stated that "the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family" and encouraged exchanges between cities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. However, the Taiwan authorities' "Mainland Affairs Council" immediately jumped, clamoring that the development of cross-strait relations and policy direction are "central powers."
Ke Wenzhe (Photo source: Taiwan media)
Looking forward to 2020, the China Times mentioned in its editorial that from a historical perspective, all parties that lost county and city elections cannot escape the fate of losing the battle of the leaders of Taiwan. Because elections are the most direct public opinion thermometer, when voters are dissatisfied with the leaders of Taiwan, it is naturally easy to use local elections to "vote for opposition parties and teach the ruling party a lesson." In other words, the failure of local elections is partly due to the people's vote of distrust against the Tsai Ing-wen authorities. Secondly, when counties and cities "change dynasties", no matter the new people and new atmosphere or the reshuffle of local administrative resources, political parties that have local advantages will have more energy to compete for the position of leaders of Taiwan.
Today, the total population of the Kuomintang ruling has reached 14.5 million, and the number of people under the Democratic Progressive Party ruling is only 6 million, less than half of the Blue Camp. Faced with the support rate that fell to a new low and the "KMT's siege", even though Tsai Ing-wen is still in office, she is already in vain, and the DPP is even more "in danger" in 2020. (Overseas Network Luo Yiqing)
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