Now the election has begun. In addition to famous figures such as Jiang Qichen, Zhu Lilun, and Zhang Ya, there is another relatively unfamiliar person, that is, Zhuo Boyuan, the former Changhua County Mayor.

Since the Kuomintang lost to the Democratic Progressive Party in the 2020 general election, the decadent atmosphere within the party has not dissipated. The top leaders in the party were in a daze, while the lower-level party members were at a loss. The Kuomintang is at a critical crossroads, and it is still unknown where it will go in the future. It just so happens that the DPP is now deeply involved in the new crown epidemic, and its counter-information of policies has caused grudges on the island. Therefore, many important figures in the Kuomintang have set their sights on the throne of the Kuomintang Chairman, hoping to seize the trough period of the Democratic Progressive Party and strive to become the "Zhongxing" to lead the Kuomintang to cheer up again. Now the election has begun. In addition to well-known figures such as Jiang Qichen , Zhu Lilun , Zhang Yazhong , there is another relatively unfamiliar person, that is Zhuo Boyuan, the former Changhua County Mayor. Compared with the top three, Zhuo Boyuan has a low voice and is not very experienced. But why did he participate in this election and stay tuned slowly.

Changhua County Mayor Zhuo Boyuan announced his candidacy for

Poetry and politician

Zhuo Boyuan was born in Tianzhong Town, Changhua County, Taiwan Province in 1965. His father once served as a member of Changhua County , and is also a small political family. Zhuo Boyuan studied at the Law Department of Taiwan University in his early years. After graduation, he entered the Institute of Marine Law at , Taiwan Ocean University , to pursue a master's degree. Zhuo Boyuan joined politics at the age of 29, became a Changhua County Councilor in 1994 and was successfully re-elected in 1998. Because of his family, his career in Changhua was smooth. When the term of office of a member of parliament expired in 1999, Zhuo Boyuan became the deputy county magistrate of Changhua County. The county magistrate at that time was Ruan Gangmeng, who was born in the Kuomintang. During his two-year term as deputy county magistrate, Zhuo Boyuan had a basic understanding of local government affairs and also received certain support from the grassroots people. In 2001, the Kuomintang lost the ruling power of Changhua County, and Weng Jinzhu, a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, became the mayor of Changhua County. Zhuo Boyuan devoted himself to the election of public opinion representatives and was successfully selected as a public opinion representative of Taiwan’s legislative body in Changhua in 2002. Zhuo Boyuan also occupies an important position in the legislative body, became the secretary-general of the Kuomintang caucus, and has a great say.

Zhuo Boyuan was elected as the county magistrate of Changhua

In the 2005 Taiwan local county and city mayor election, Zhuo Boyuan officially took the lead and returned to Changhua to run for the county magistrate. His opponent was Weng Jinzhu, the then-county magistrate who was seeking re-election. As a result, Zhuo Boyuan won 10,000 votes in the election and successfully regained Changhua County for the Kuomintang. He also began his own business journey in Changhua area. In 2009, Zhuo Boyuan defeated Weng Jinzhu, who was sent by the Democratic Progressive Party, and served as county magistrate in Changhua for 8 years. During his tenure, Zhuo Boyuan focused on basic science and technology construction, and promoted the expansion and upgrading of Changhua's science and technology industry. at the time Google was looking for investment in Taiwan, and they hoped to invest in the establishment of an Asian data processing center in Changhua County. Zhuo Boyuan attaches great importance to this and actively promotes the strengthening of relevant infrastructure. This project, with a total investment of up to US$300 million, has a good effect on Changhua's economic development and employment improvement, and has provided jobs for many young people in the county. This project was successfully completed and put into use in 2013, which has a good driving effect on the development of Changhua and its surrounding areas.

Changhua Beauty

Although Zhuo Boyuan has made some achievements in Changhua, there are still many problems with his personal personality. He was very happy during his tenure and liked to show off. Moreover, he likes arts and is best at writing poetry in daily life, so he is also called a "poet politician" or "poet county magistrate". He printed his photos and poems on teacups, handbags and calendars to distribute them to the people and sent them to other counties and cities. His seven-character poem is on the outer packaging plastic bag of each item, and the cost of consumes hundreds of millions of New Taiwan dollars . During the election process, he also used the banner of "Taiwan University junior brother and junior sister supporting seniors", and claimed that many juniors from Taiwan University also supported him very much, using them to attract votes from young people.But this incident was later revealed to be purely false. The photos of his junior sister he used were Japanese idols Fujiwara Noika and Inamori Izumi , which made his political ethics and personal morality questioned from the outside world. After stepping down as the county magistrate of Changhua in 2014, Zhuo Boyuan also ran for the election as a representative of the public opinion of the legislative body, but unfortunately he withdrew from politics after losing.

Changhua County Mayor keen on writing poetry

After Zhuo Boyuan announced his candidacy for the Kuomintang chairman, he proposed to help the Kuomintang get out of the shadow and regain the spirit of founding the party. Zhuo Boyuan believes that the Kuomintang’s cross-strait line is to “deepen the 992 Consensus ” and return to the original “1992 Consensus”. , and Zhuo Boyuan also proposed the concept of full-time party chairman, that is, future party chairman should no longer have other positions. He believes that the current Party Chairman Jiang Qichen is a representative of public opinion in the legislative body, Zhu Lilun intends to seek a throne in 2024, and Zhang Yazhong is the principal of Sun Yat-sen School, so it is difficult to have enough energy to devote himself to party affairs. He then proposed that if he wins the election, he will serve as the full-time party chairman. Without the ties and distractions of public office, he can better serve the Kuomintang. This political view can be said to be tailor-made for oneself, because among the four people running for the Kuomintang chairman, Zhuo Boyuan himself has no position at all. His political views seem fair and upright, but in fact he is making his own small calculations, which makes the outside world feel bad.

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Does Zhuo Boyuan want to be the "catfish" in the election?

Since Han Kuo-yu lost to Tsai Ing-wen in 2020, the line within the Kuomintang has been in a turbulent and torn process. All the big guys are fighting openly and secretly for their own interests. Jiang Qichen wants to remove the word "China" in the name of "Kuomintang" to cater to Taiwan independence populist . Zhu Lilun announced earlier that he would return to university to teach. Now he saw that the DPP was weak and proposed a "pro-American and mainland" policy to make a comeback. Ma Ying-jeou was hidden behind the scenes, and in fact he was constantly moving. Zhang Yazhong started the election and criticized the corruption within the Kuomintang and the incompetence of the DPP authorities, which won unanimous praise on the Internet. Zhuo Boyuan is a marginal figure compared to the entire Kuomintang system, but will his appearance form the catfish effect and stimulate this election? I think it may not be, because the corrupt system and mechanism within the Kuomintang are the biggest problem.

catfish effect

KMT is a "century-old store". Although it has a profound history, it also has its own shortcomings. The " Jiangguan Culture " is very serious when it comes to seniority rankings within the Kuomintang, depending on education, qualifications, age, and interpersonal context. There are many hills and their own camps, frequent internal strife is an important reason why the Kuomintang has repeatedly failed since the 2016 election. The biggest enemy of the Kuomintang is not the Democratic Progressive Party but the struggle within the Kuomintang . In 2020, Han Kuo Yu and Guo Taiming were hard to solve and the tragic situation of being inseparable and in the KMT primary election was one of the fuses for Han Kuo Yu's final failure, because this caused the split of the blue camp. The same is true for this Kuomintang chairman election. From all aspects, Zhu Lilun should be the final winner . Although Jiang Qichen has the capital to compete with him, he will not be Zhu Lilun's opponent in the end. Zhang Yazhong seemed to use this election platform to spread his ideas and propositions. The several drawbacks he proposed within the Kuomintang are indeed very meaningful. But Zhang Yazhong and Zhuo Boyuan should be both running along the way in the end, but why did Zhuo Boyuan pay huge run-in fees to use for this must-lose election?

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KMT has many factions within the Kuomintang. It is the key to the problem.

Zhuo Boyuan has faded out of politics for six years and is no longer young. He should have enjoyed his old age. However, his education and experience have given him a deep affection for the traditional Kuomintang. Both Jiang Qichen and Zhu Lilun plan to build the Kuomintang into a "pro-American" party. However, in today's harsh environment of Sino-US relations, the price of pro-US is likely to be "anti-China", which is not what the traditional Kuomintang members want to see. , especially he has experienced the prosperity of cross-straits during Ma Ying-jeou's rule, so he still hopes to return to the "1992 Consensus" route from the bottom of his heart. He hopes to speak out through this stage. This is very similar to Zhang Yazhong, but he does not have the passionate and persistent persistence of Mr. Zhang Yazhong. On the other hand, Zhuo Boyuan also hopes to use this to raise his political market. If he can open up the "second spring" of the political cause, it will be worth it even if he loses the election.

Zhu Lilun will still be the final winner

2019 Taiwan leaders' general election, there were also runners who accompanied the Kuomintang in the primary election. Zhou Xiwei was the Taipei county magistrate of the Kuomintang from 2005 to 2010. He lost to Zhu Lilun in the 2010 party primary election and then faded out of politics. However, in 2019, he announced his high-profile election as the leader of Taiwan in 2020, challenging Han Kuo-yu and others who were in the limelight in the party at that time. Although this intra-party election battle was still won by Han Kuo-yu, Zhou Xiwei immediately became the CEO of the election center of Han Kuo-yu's campaign team and returned to politics again. After Han Kuo-yu lost in 2020, Zhou Xiwei became the financial backer behind Han Kuo-yu Wangwang Zhongshi Media Group's vice chairman , and can be said to be one of the real winners of the 2020 election. With this identity, Zhou Xiwei has regained political development space between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and has a promising future. Therefore, Zhuo Boyuan is likely to hope to re-follow Zhou Xiwei's old path. On the one hand, he promoted his own proposition and did his best to the Kuomintang he loved. At the same time, he can gain a certain voice in politics again and may usher in a period of rising career again. This is also in line with his character of being very fond of merit and showing off. As for whether he can become a "catfish" within the Kuomintang, it depends on the overall environment and is not within his preset.

Zhou Xiwei

Today, Taiwan is in the impact of the new crown epidemic and the subsequent secondary disasters, and the lives, health and safety of ordinary people are being seriously challenged. At the beginning of the year, the pork containing , ractopamine, in the United States had already entered the table of civil society. The various actions of the DPP were already cold-blooded and ruthless, which aroused public grievances and public outrage. The party chairman who won the Kuomintang this time can be said to have encountered a very good historical opportunity period. If he mastered it well, he would likely win a complete victory in the 2022 local county and mayor election in Taiwan. This is also an important reason why Zhu Lilun stood up to run for the election at this time. He will not get up early without profit. The political propositions of Zhang Yazhong, Zhuo Boyuan and others, especially their views on cross-strait issues, are very representative. It is still unknown where the Kuomintang ship will sail, but "one China" is a political bottom line that both sides of the Taiwan Strait should abide by. Any politician who intends to abandon it will inevitably bring unpredictable dangers to cross-strait relations and will become a common sinner between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. Let us wait and see how the situation in the Taiwan Strait will develop in the future.