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ko wen-je is detained, the people's party holds an enlarged meeting, and currently does not discuss the issue of acting chairman

2024-09-06

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[global network reporter meng yuan] according to taiwan united news network and central news agency on september 5, taiwan people's party chairman and former taipei mayor ke wenzhe was involved in the taipei jinghuacheng scandal. the taipei district court reopened the detention court on september 5 and ruled that ke wenzhe was detained and denied access to visitors. the people's party emergency response team held a meeting that evening and continued to hold an expanded meeting on the morning of the 6th to discuss the next work. regarding whether to appoint an acting party chairman, people's party spokesperson wu yixuan said on the 5th that the people's party's decision-making is currently made collectively by the emergency response team, and there is no question of an acting party chairman.

the report mentioned that regarding ko wen-je's detention and no visitation, whether the people's party central evaluation committee will hold a meeting to discuss punishment for ko wen-je, li weihua, a member of the central evaluation committee of the people's party, said on the evening of the 5th that there will be no central evaluation committee meeting in the next two days. the report said that the entire people's party still believes in ko wen-je's innocence and will not hold a central evaluation committee meeting to discuss ko wen-je's corruption case for the time being.

as for whether to discuss the candidate for acting chairman, the report said that jiang heshu, a member of the central committee of the people's party, said that ko wen-je is now on leave, and the acting party chairman must be nominated by the central evaluation committee. these are two different things. there is no discussion about the acting party chairman. in addition, wu yixuan also said that the current decision-making mechanism within the people's party is collectively decided by the emergency response team, and the discussion process is all consensus decision-making. there is no issue of acting party chairman at present. first, stabilize the morale of the troops, and then discuss what to do next.

according to taiwan's central news agency, ko wen-je's detention and no-contact order has shocked taiwan's political arena and brought the people's party to its biggest crisis since its founding. not only has the previous accounting scandal not been resolved, but now that party chairman ko wen-je has been detained for the jinghuacheng case, it remains to be tested whether the people's party can survive the political storm.

according to the report, ko wen-je had previously told the people's party secretary-general zhou yu-hsiu that "party affairs must be stabilized" during the period from his "return without bail" to the second detention hearing, but did not further explain how decisions were made. currently, the people's party is still avoiding the issue of acting party chairman, and must first stabilize the morale of the troops before discussing subsequent offense and defense.

"central news agency" said that the people's party may be able to respond in a short period of time by adopting a collective decision-making approach, but judicial proceedings are a long road. as ko wen-je is detained and has no contact with the outside world, the future of the people's party will test the collective wisdom of the people's party's public officials and is related to the long-term development of the third force in taiwan's political arena.