Source: Global Times
[Global Times Comprehensive Report] All elected local public officials in Taiwan were sworn in on the 25th, and 22 county and city councils also fully re-elected presidents and deputy speakers. As a result, frequent defections occurred within the Kuomintang, which attracted the attention of the party and public opinion.
According to Taiwan's "China Times" report on the 26th, there are 33 members of the Hualien County Assembly, and the Kuomintang has a stable majority of 20 seats. Although Zhang Jun, the Kuomintang speaker who was striving for re-election, was not nominated by the party, he narrowly won on the 25th and immediately announced his withdrawal from the Kuomintang. In Kaohsiung , the speaker election was also unprecedentedly fierce. The DPP announced the day before the election that Kang Yucheng, a member of the New Trend Party, would run for speaker, and poached the KMT's Zeng Junjie as his deputy, disrupting the KMT's layout. In the end, the DPP won the seat of speaker and deputy speaker.
According to statistics from Taiwan's "Ministry of the Interior", the Kuomintang won 15 speakers and 14 deputy speakers in the city council reelection this time, while the DPP only had 4 speakers and 2 deputy speakers, and non-party members had 3 speakers and 5 deputy speakers. However, it is much inferior to the 19 county and city chairpersons won by the Kuomintang in 2018. In addition, members of Kaohsiung, Tainan, and Keelung have defected, testing the unity within the party.
html On the 26th, the Kaohsiung City Party Headquarters of the Kuomintang held a disciplinary meeting and expelled Zeng Junjie from the party. Lin Jiaxing, deputy chairman of the Kuomintang Cultural Affairs Bureau, said that regarding the situation of a small number of party members violating discipline in this election of speaker and deputy speaker, Hualien, Keelung, Tainan and other places will hold disciplinary meetings one after another from the 27th to deal with disciplinary members in accordance with the charter. Kuomintang Chairman Zhu Lilun said he regretted any violation of party discipline. "In the most difficult times of the Kuomintang, unity is the most loyal comrade." Zhao Shaokang, chairman of China Broadcasting Corporation, even criticized Zeng Junjie for being extremely ugly for his own political interests, without any concern for the voters who had just voted for him."Defection before the battle is a wake-up call for the Kuomintang," a commentary published in China Times on the 26th said that members who represent direct public opinion dare to abandon the party and voters just after being elected. The warning behind it is worthy of reflection by the Kuomintang. In addition to poor party discipline, the more critical reason may be that the Kuomintang lacks the belief to move voters, so that legislators who desert the party are emboldened and do not worry about voters giving them a lesson in voting. The article believes that why do congressmen who have abandoned the Kuomintang have such a perception? The key is that "hating the DPP" does not mean "liking the KMT." Commentators said that of the 910 local council seats in Taiwan, the Kuomintang dropped from 394 in the previous term to 367, while the Democratic Progressive Party increased from 238 to 277. Obviously among the mainstream public opinion at the grassroots level, the trend of "hating the Kuomintang" has not stopped. Hong Kong's China Review Press believes that these vote-running incidents show the KMT's lack of central control. (Zhang Ruo)
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