The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has not ruled out cooperating with other opposition parties in the local elections in November, especially in districts that are difficult to win, KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) said on Friday. The KMT might not even nominate a mayoral candidate in Kaohsiung, he added.
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), who is chairman of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), said he had not talked to Chu about the issue, and that the scope of the KMT’s intended cooperation remains unclear.
Broadcasting Corp of China chairman Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康), a prominent KMT member, a day earlier wrote on Facebook
Former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) vice chairman Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌), a former Taipei mayor, on Sunday said that the KMT and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) would benefit from joining forces in the Taipei mayoral election later this year.
National Policy Foundation vice chairman Sean Lien (連勝文), the KMT candidate in the 2014 Taipei mayoral race, and Broadcasting Corp of China chairman Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康) have also given their support to the idea. Hau, Lien and Jaw, to varying degrees, represent the KMT leadership position. Their support appears to be a concerted effort to promote the idea.
However, there is
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Saturday last week spoke at the opening of the Ching-kuo Chi-hai Cultural Park (經國七海文化園區) and the Chiang Ching-kuo Presidential Library in Taipei.
Despite drawing criticism from all sides for doing so, she was able to kill five birds with one stone.
The first was in the grace and generosity she displayed. Tsai spoke positively about Chiang Ching-kuo’s (蔣經國) staunchly anti-communist stance, highlighting the ridiculousness of the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) position of working with the Chinese Communist Party.
This was a slap in the face to pan-blue camp leaders such as former vice president Lien Chan (連戰),
Former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislator Pang Chien-kuo (龐建國) was yesterday found dead outside his apartment in Taipei’s Neihu District (內湖), apparently having jumped to his death after posting the message “I would rather die than live in this unjust Taiwan” in a KMT group Line chat.
Taipei police and fire officials said they received a report at about 7am that the body of a man, later declared dead at the scene, had been found on Neihu Road.
The man was identified as the 68-year-old Pang, who was known to have been diagnosed with cancer, police said.
The case has been passed to
The Chinese-language news Web site Formosa last month published a poll showing that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) had an approval rating of 48.9 percent, an increase of 4.1 percent over a previous survey, while its disapproval rating was 42.2 percent, a decrease of 3.1 percent.
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) had an approval rating of just 27.8 percent, down 3.9 percent, while its disapproval rating was 59.1 percent, a 3.5 percent increase.
Basically, the DPP has a far higher approval rating than the KMT, by a margin of 21.1 percent, while its disapproval rating was 16.9 percentage points lower than that