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taiwan people's party chairman ko wen-je was involved in the jinghuacheng case and was detained and denied access to visitors. on the 10th, he seemed to have given up his appeal. kuomintang legislator li yanxiu analyzed that ko wen-je's abandonment of the appeal means that the northern district prosecutors office has no room for "non-prosecution" in this battle, otherwise the political backlash may cause a political storm.

regarding ko wen-je's decision to give up his appeal, li yanxiu said that according to the "criminal procedure law", the legal procedure for filing an appeal should be filed within 10 days after the ruling is issued; ko wen-je was detained on the 5th, and the final deadline for appeal is the 16th (one day postponed due to the weekend). but ko wen-je's legal team issued a jointly signed statement of non-appeal yesterday. this result is not surprising. as early as the early morning of august 31, when ko wen-je was arrested and the prosecutor applied for detention and no-contact, ko wen-je had expressed his unwillingness to pay bail. under the thinking of "lai ching-te's party (dpp) and prosecutors (prosecutions) as one", ko wen-je had long formulated two strategic paths of "judicial" and "political" to turn defense into offense.

li yanxiu analyzed that first of all, in terms of "judicial affairs", ko wen-je believes that meaninglessly letting the detention results go back and forth between the taiwan "high court" and the district court is tantamount to constantly "politically torturing" himself and the people's party, and allowing prosecutors, the media and the wings to continue to have room to make statements and manipulate. it is better to show frankness and show evidence to the prosecutors through actions. ko wen-je is even more aware that the prosecutors' repeated release may lead to the use of "tainted witnesses", which means that the evidence in hand may be far inferior to the statements made to the outside world.

li yanxiu believes that politically, the people's party is facing the most difficult moment in its five years of existence. some media outlets have deliberately created the perception that "there is a possibility that white camp candidates will abandon ship." prosecutors and investigators have frequently made statements through specific media, making it difficult for ko wen-je to cope. it is more likely that the hesitant "little grass" (ko wen-je's young supporters) and intellectuals will get tired of the war of words and leave. ko wen-je's approach of "self-imprisonment" (i.e. giving up appeals and being directly imprisoned for two months) has won him the voice of unity within the people's party and the indignation of his supporters. his successful campaign in front of taiwan's public opinion agency on sunday has obviously achieved considerable results.

li yanxiu said that it can be expected that if ko wen-je gives up the appeal, the media war, the war of words, and the war of flanks may be temporarily suspended, and all the pressure of investigation and time will be returned to the northern district prosecutors office. in this battle, the northern district prosecutors office has no room for "non-prosecution", otherwise the political recoil may cause a political storm. two months later, let the evidence speak for itself.

lin jingxian, taiwan correspondent of strait herald