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Ko Wen-je and the People's Party are stuck in a quagmire. Cheng Li-wen reminds the KMT: calmly think about the next step

2024-08-22

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The People's Party Chairman Ko Wen-je is deeply involved in the Taipei Jinghuacheng case and political donation controversy. His wife Chen Pei-chi was also exposed to have looked at a NT$120 million mansion. The People's Party and his personal image have been hit hard. Former KMT legislator Zheng Liwen said that the People's Party is creating crises by dealing with crises every day and is "looking for trouble" every day. The KMT cannot cover up its shortcomings. She believes that the KMT is "very afraid that it will not be the majority of Taiwan's public opinion institutions", but if it clings to the 8 seats of the White Camp legislators, it will make a strategic mistake.

Regarding the false accounting case of Ko Wen-je, Chu Li-lun said that the KMT and the People's Party still have many important issues to work together on in Taiwan's public opinion institutions in the future, and they need everyone to work together to promote them. There are also many areas for cooperation at the local level, and he hopes that Ko Wen-je can get through this crisis smoothly and safely.

Zheng Liwen said on the 21st that the KMT can no longer help cover up the farce between Ko Wen-je and People's Party legislator Huang Shanshan. She believes that the People's Party is creating crises by dealing with crises every day, and the DPP's punishment of Ko Wen-je is not as severe as the People's Party's punishment of itself. Watching the white camp digging holes and jumping into them, this is no longer something the KMT can stop or save from the sidelines. The KMT cannot watch over the People's Party every second.

Zheng Liwen reminded that the KMT should think carefully about its blind spot in the first session of the Taiwan People's Congress, which is that "the KMT is afraid that it will not have the majority in the Taiwan People's Congress", so it is clinging to the 8 seats of the White Camp, which is a strategic mistake. She believes that the KMT should decide whether to cooperate with the People's Party group based on the case and the situation.

Zheng Liwen said frankly that after six months of fighting with the DPP, the KMT's party support has not improved, and its efforts to oppose the DPP have not increased its weight in the hearts of the people. This should be a wake-up call for the KMT. The KMT cannot be wishful thinking. Such a "blue-white alliance" is unhealthy and incorrect. It must rationally and calmly think about its own situation and the party's next move.

Li Yanxiu, the chairperson of the KMT's Cultural and Communications Committee, said a few days ago that the People's Party's political donations scandal is yet to be clarified by judicial investigation. The KMT has absolute confidence in cooperating with the opposition and proposing more "bills" for people's livelihood. She emphasized that the cooperation between Taiwan's public opinion institutions and the Legislative Council still depends on each issue and individual "bill", and has no direct relationship with the political donation scandal.

Li Yanxiu pointed out that in the last session, the People's Party did not necessarily cooperate with the Kuomintang on many bills, and it cannot be directly interpreted as "blue-white cooperation". The Kuomintang and the People's Party are both opposition parties, and supporters of both sides hope to see the opposition party to conduct favorable supervision of the ruling party. In the next session, the opposition party will focus more on livelihood issues that the public cares about. As long as it is good for society, as long as it is beneficial to the public, and as long as it can supervise the ruling party, the opposition party should speak out and fight from the perspective of the public.(Lin Jingxian, Strait Herald reporter in Taiwan)