Everyone knows that the 2018 county and city mayor election is the most important tough battle for the Kuomintang’s critical survival. If this battle is won, the Kuomintang can still imagine the possibility of "returning to power"; but if this battle is lost, let alone the dream of "returning to power", it is no exaggeration to say whether the Kuomintang can still have a bone.
Therefore, in the face of this "must win" 2018 election battle, the Kuomintang has successively launched their candidates. In this drama where you and I have finished the show, the Kuomintang must not only resolve the factional dispute, but also resolve the "bloody dispute."
Yes, the Kuomintang has been controversial about whether it is a "blue bloodline" for a long time, and he will not hesitate to split, unite, and split again...
For example, when Lee Teng-hui was in power in the 1990s, due to the dispute over line and election nomination, the Kuomintang immediately split the new party and the People First Party. When the New Party and the People First Party were founded, they both severely criticized the Kuomintang under Lee Teng-hui for relying on the black gold and "independence" line and deviating from the original ideal of creating the party. Among them, the New Party once claimed that it was the "orthodox Kuomintang". Those who left the Kuomintang entered the political arena through the nominations of the New Party and the People First Party. However, with the rise of Ma Ying-jeou, many of the political elites of the People First Party and the New Party returned to the Kuomintang, such as Lin Defu, the Kuomintang's heavyweight civilian representative Lai Shibao, Fei Hongtai and others.
Because the Kuomintang has such a tradition, it is projected to this year's county and city mayor election. The most typical example is the current New Taipei Mayor's KMT primary election. Candidate Zhou Xiwei emphasized that he is "a blue life for the rest of his life" is the only choice of the Kuomintang in New Taipei City , and can protect New Taipei City for pan-blue. At the same time, Zhou Xiwei repeatedly pointed out and implied that his opponent Hou Youyi was "not blue or green, not clear or unjust, and unjust."
But in fact, within the Kuomintang, there are not many candidates in 2018 who can claim to be "a life-long blue". The editor will first help you sort it out:
1 life-long national party
Taipei mayor candidate Ding Shouzhong, Taoyuan mayor candidate Yang Lihuan and Chen Xuesheng, Tainan mayor candidate Huang Xiushuang, and Kaohsiung mayor candidate Chen Yimin, they have never left the Kuomintang since they entered politics, and they can be called "a life-long blue".
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Taipei mayor candidates Zhang Xianyao and Sun Daqian, first as electoral representatives as the People First Party, and later returned to the Kuomintang.
Although New Taipei mayor candidate Zhou Xiwei claimed that he was "a lifelong blue", in fact, in the 2000 general election, Zhou Xiwei left the Kuomintang and began to follow Song Chuyu, and then participated in the establishment of the People First Party.
In Tainan City, Gao Sibo is the son of Gao Yuren, the Speaker of Taiwan Provincial Assembly. In the 2004 National Election, Gao Sibo won the election as the People First Party and later returned to the Kuomintang.
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In Taiwan's political arena, job-changing often happens. Although people have long been accustomed to the pan-blue interior, there are still many politicians who have jumped from green to blue. For example, Lin Weizhou, a current Kuomintang citizen who has jumped from the DPP, is fighting for the nomination of the county mayor of Hsinchu , and Taipei mayor candidate Zheng Liwen also jumped from the DPP camp.
Some other politicians who claim to be local and do not emphasize ideology, such as Chen Chaoming, a civilian in Miaoli County, also joined the DPP in the past. Chen Chaoming was not afraid to mention this past event, and once reminded officials during his inquiry: Based on the records that both parties have passed, he clearly knew that "not only the Kuomintang candidates will bribe elections."
Since there are so many politicians in the Kuomintang who are not "bright blue for life" due to various factors, then, now that it is at the critical moment of survival, is the Kuomintang still arguing about who is "bright blue" meaningful?
In this regard, Wu Yusheng, a former representative of the Kuomintang, who has been in politics all the way, believes that the basic attributes of politicians should still be discussed, but the standard should not be "whether he has left the Kuomintang", but rather whether his basic concept is consistent with the Kuomintang? Is there a record of betrayal and hurting the Kuomintang?
For example, Hou Youyi, who is expected to be in New Taipei, was indeed a fact that he was promoted during the Chen Shui-bian period. However, as a senior affairs official who the DPP was eager to win over, Hou Youyi did not respond to the call of "elites joining the party" and joined the DPP. At the same time, Wu Yusheng also revealed that during the 2010 county and city mayor election, the DPP invited Hou Youyi to run for the mayor of Taichung, but he refused and joined the New Taipei City team of Zhu Lilun .
In fact, looking at the current public opinion in Taiwan, we have long been tired of the day-to-day fighting of blue and green. What they need are leaders who can truly seek welfare for the people. Just like Hou Youyi, his various performances of hard work over the years have made his polls far exceeding Zhou Xiwei, so strong that the DPP cannot even find a candidate for the mayor of New Taipei, and even has to attack Su Zhenchang and You Xikun.
Therefore, if the Kuomintang still ignores public opinion and blindly makes the election war a life-and-death "bloody battle", it may lose more potential supporters.
This article is comprehensively compiled from Taiwan's United Daily News
