Chen Shiliang, director of Shanghai Public Relations Research Institute (Photo source: China Review News Agency)
The Kuomintang will hold a party chairman by-election on March 7. In response, Chen Shiliang, director of Shanghai Public Relations Research Institute, published an article on China Review News Agency on the 20th, analyzing several focus points involved in the Kuomintang chairman by-election. He believes that "generational alternation" is also an important part of it.
Chen Shiliang believes that in recent times, the call for "generational alternation" within the Kuomintang has become increasingly high. Since Taiwan implemented the election of regional leaders in 1996, the candidates launched by the Kuomintang have basically been greater than those of the Democratic Progressive Party. Some younger generations believe that almost all senior figures who actually control the affairs of the party are "old people's politics", and young people cannot see the future or hope. In contrast, the DPP gradually completed the "generational alternation" after Chen Shui-bian took office in 2000. The second generation of his political family has now basically become the main backbone of the DPP. For this reason, there have been calls for "generational alternation" within the Kuomintang. After the election at the beginning of this year, the Kuomintang once again saw the reform of "generation succession" and "generational alternation" emerged.
Chen Shiliang said that in another 20 days, the Kuomintang will hold a by-election for the party chairman. Since the Kuomintang chairman election is a "closed" election, the final result will be decided by the votes of less than 300,000 effective party members at present, so the structural factors of the party members are more important. (China Taiwan Network Wang Shanshan)
