Last week, the DPP lost the "nine-in-one" local elections on the island, winning only in Kaohsiung , Tainan , Chiayi , Penghu and Pingtung, and there is still great controversy in Pingtung's victory in the deep green area. Compared with Tsai Ing-wen's 8.17 million votes in the 2020 Taiwan leadership election, the total number of votes lost more than three million votes, almost halfway. combined with data from various aspects, the DPP's failure this time is considered the worst in its election history.
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Tsai Ing-wen then had to announce her resignation from the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party to express her responsibility, but she also said that Su Zhenchang would remain in office. Originally, this election was a review of the government's performance on the island. As the executive director, Su Zhenchang was obviously one of the biggest responsible persons. And Su Zhenchang's performance in recent years has indeed been very bad. According to past practices, the administrative leaders on the island will basically resign at the first time to express their responsibility, including Liu Zhaoxuan from the Kuomintang in 2014, and Lai Ching-te from the Democratic Progressive Party in 2018. Among them, Lai Qingde said at the time that he would leave after the annual total budget was approved, and was criticized for "Lai Qingde staying with him" and was dissatisfied with his style.
This time Su Zhenchang is fine. I just said that there are many problems we have to face now, so he can't leave. Judging from Su Zhenchang's past, it is not surprising. When he broke his promise and ran for election, he was mocked as "even gods dared to deceive him." He wants to stay with him now, and the so-called "complex problems" that he must face emerges. Since Su Zhenchang did not leave, of course he had to use the benefits to block the opposition within the party. For example, Qiu Zhangxin, the younger brother of the Democratic Progressive Party, who was prosecuted in the smuggling case, was recently promoted to the director of the Joint Control Department of China Airlines, which caused an uproar in public opinion. Although the DPP lost this election, it did not prevent them from continuing to share the spoils within.
There is actually a consensus on the failure of the DPP, and most of the views also believe that even if the DPP fails, Tsai Ing-wen will not easily resign from the party chairman because Tsai Ing-wen will face the problem of lame power for the remaining two years. But after all, the DPP was defeated too badly, so it would not be possible if it did not leave. However, Tsai Ing-wen still made a lot of arrangements to continue her influence. For example, at the first time, she appointed Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai as the acting chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party. Chen Chi-mai is Tsai Ing-wen's direct descendant. Of course, he would take power within the party for Tsai Ing-wen. also appointed Zheng Wencan as the person in charge of this defeat review. Zheng Wencan was valued by Tsai Ing-wen and once hoped that Zheng would take over. Unfortunately, Zheng Wencan was also the "war criminal" who lost the election this time. He served as mayor in Taoyuan for eight years and has been promoting his outstanding political achievements, but in the end he was denied by the voters of Taoyuan. Taoyuan is one of the discretionary points of victory or defeat in this election. If Taoyuan loses, Zheng Wencan is of course to blame.
Taoyuan City Mayor Zheng Wencan was reported by You Zhibin, the candidate for Taoyuan City Council of the New Party, in October this year for suspected plagiarism of his master's thesis. (Photo source: Taiwan media)
That's it, Although Tsai Ing-wen resigned from the party chairman, she used Chen Chi-mai to take over, and used Zheng Wencan to summarize the defeat (I hope he will run for the party chairman in the future), and kept Su Zhenchang to maintain the political situation. In short, everything has hardly changed. Political observers analyzed that Tsai Ing-wen hates Lai Ching-te, and what she fears most is that Lai Ching-te takes advantage of the situation to take over the Democratic Progressive Party when she failed. So Tsai Ing-wen tried her best to surround Lai Ching-te.
However, Zheng Wencan, who is valued by Tsai Ing-wen, is in trouble again. His paper was accused of plagiarism and NTU will announce the cancellation of his postgraduate degree on Monday. Another unlucky guy is his mentor Chen Mingtong, who will announce that he will never be hired. When Lin Zhijian's paper was plagiarized, Zheng Wencan supported Lin and began to think that they were comrades of the party and had no choice but to do so. Now I found out that it was just a disease and a sympathy.
In-fighting force warding
After the election, Tsai Ing-wen convened a "Central General Meeting" as soon as possible, thinking that it was necessary to summarize the failure, but in the end, it still found a "war criminal" in the party who was not so compatible. This includes Wang Shijian, , Gao Jiayu, , Guo Zhengliang and others, and the deep green forces of the DPP called for the expulsion of these people one after another. For example, Gao Jiayu and others criticized the DPP for being rampant on the flanks of the Internet Army, undermining the democratic checks and balance mechanism, causing middle-aged voters to be disenchanted, etc. As a result, Gao was attacked by the Internet Army and accused her of being a traitor. Agreed Party member Li Jianchang also named her that she should leave the DPP.
On the other hand, Taipei's Democratic Progressive Party's national representative, He Zhiwei, scolded Hong Yaofu, one of Tsai Ing-wen's core aides. He Zhiwei said that the underworld had entered Chen Shizhong's campaign team and directly named Hong Yaofu, Hong Yaonan, Huang Chengguo and others. Hong Yaofu was a lot more, and he directly called He Zhiwei a scum of the DPP. Although it was just a battle of words between the two, He Zhiwei pointed out that the biggest reason for the so-called defeat was Tsai Ing-wen's "British" system.
Some green camp representatives who are considered "pro-descendant" the election, said that the reason for the defeat this time was that Tsai Ing-wen "confiscated" the DPP's primary election, which was caused by Tsai's nominee designated by the nominee. Former DPP chairman Shi Mingde, who has been silent for a long time, also came out to criticize Tsai Ing-wen and suggested that Tsai Ing-wen let Lai Ching-te take over.
The Democratic Progressive Party has fought for power and profit when Tsai Ing-wen is weak. Lai Ching-te was indeed marginalized by Tsai Ing-wen and was not in the core team of the election, so he was not seriously injured after the election, which became the hope of the green camp at this moment. But if you have a little memory, you will think that before 2018, Lai Ching-te was the administrative director for more than a year, and he was also angry and resentful, becoming one of the culprits of the defeat that year. Later, Lai Ching-te came out to compete with Tsai Ing-wen for the position of party chairman. In the early days, the polls were much higher than those of Tsai Ing-wen's Lai Ching-te, but he was beaten by Tsai using the party machine to be completely defeated. So after a little analysis, you will know that Lai Qingte's level is actually nothing but Ah. But this person is relatively stubborn and seems to be able to adhere to the "green camp ideal".
Wu Yinong
Jiang Wanan was elected as mayor of Taipei, and the private positions he had vacant were to be elected by-election. The DPP recruited Wu Yinong, chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party of Taipei, to participate in the by-election. Wu was born into a powerful and powerful Democratic Party. Because of his pleasing appearance, he ran against Jiang Wan'an for the last time to vote for the private generation. The election was lively and two handsome guys were talking back and forth, and the topic was basically overwhelmingly practical. Whether Wu Yinong has a level or not is not the key to voters' concern. But fortunately, time can tell the problem. Wu's later words and behaviors proved that he was just a "gorgeous fool". It's okay if he was interviewed by , he often talked indifferently, and he didn't even know what he was going to say. There are so many jokes that even the Green Camp people can't stand it. However, he was valued by the DPP and gave him a lot of resources. The regulations were also revised to facilitate him to elect the chairman of the Taipei DPP. It was also his run for the chairman of the DPP, which caused a series of discords within the Taipei DPP later, including the underworld incident criticized by He Zhiwei.
Under pressure from Tsai Ing-wen and other senior DPP leaders, Wu Yinong was barely elected as the chairman of the Taipei Municipal Party Committee with only more than 1,000 votes. recruited him to participate in the by-election this time, but he told reporters that the DPP’s failure in this election was due to the abandonment of the internal primary election, which was caused by Tsai Ing-wen’s recruitment. He said it was actually right, but he forgot that his two voter-run elections were recruited, and the regulations tailor-made for him to run for the chairman of the Taipei Party Committee. He is a recognized vested interest, but he never forgot to give Tsai Ing-wen a knife.
Last time, he forgot what he wanted to say during his speech, so he asked everyone to pay attention to the flowery socks worn by Tsai Ing-wen to change the topic - this way of embarrassing himself rather than embarrassing himself on the Democratic Progressive Party Chairman is very strange.Because of the basic social common sense of Chinese people, how can this kind of person who takes the lead in the leader when something happens? How can it go long and not look good?
Wang Hongwei (left), Wu Yinong (right)
However, after this election, a consensus was basically generated on the island: This is an unprecedented failure of the DPP, not a huge victory of the Kuomintang. is also because of this perception that the Kuomintang did not fall into a carnival. After the Kuomintang's victory in 2018, due to various reasons such as internal power struggles and profits, even though it was a history of a crushing defeat in the subsequent Taiwan leadership elections, the Kuomintang, compared with this victory, was relatively low-key after this election. The first issue they dealt with was also the by-election issue of Jiang Wan'an's vacancies in the Mind. Because the time of by-election voting is subtle. Players who can play in the Kuomintang, such as Wang Hongwei, Xu Qiaoxin and others, went to participate in the by-election before taking office, and did have doubts about "escape". After intra-party polls, the Kuomintang determined that Wang Hongwei had the greatest chance of winning, so he recruited Wang Hongwei to participate in the by-election. Wang Hongwei has outstanding combat power in this election, and Lin Zhijian’s paper is fake. She is one of the earliest whistleblowers, so Wang’s support rate is extremely high within the Blue Camp. But it was precisely because of the doubts about "escape", that Wang Jidu said he would not choose. But in the end, he could not bear the pressure of various persuasions by the top leaders of the Kuomintang and accepted the call.
In the end, the DPP did not fail to reflect on it. For example, this time, the excessive behavior of some media flanking led to a rebound in public opinion, which especially aroused the disgust of middle-aged voters. Among them, of course, week Yuko is the most important. So one week after the election, Zhou Yuko announced that her program on Minshi was accepted and her position as host was resigned. The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook. What's more, this time the cunning rabbit was shocked by the "loose dog", so Zhou Yukou naturally cooked it!
Author丨Xu Yi, Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News Special Editor
