WAGE ‘DONATION’: Whistle-blowers gave evidence that staff had been required to funnel salaries into an office fund for the lawmaker’s personal expensesBy Jason Pan / Staff reporter
China, Macau, MNA, Opinion | The resurgence of the Kuomintang (KMT) in the recent local county mayoral elections in Taiwan has important directional implications for the 2024 presidential elections. Although politics is the art of the possible and although electoral outcomes can be unpredictable, the local elections on November 26, 2022 have political significance that cannot be neglected in our political analysis of Taiwan’s politics and its interactions with the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
In many ways, the election results maintained the status quo of pan-Blue dominance over local politics, rather than a dramatic return to form for the KMT.
GAINING GROUND: Kao’s victory gives the three-year-old party a major win in its first year of local campaigning, in a city the DPP held for two termsBy Hung Mei-hsiu and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNA