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the recall of keelung mayor xie guoliang from the kuomintang will be held in the middle of next month. compared with the awkward role of the democratic progressive party in the recall of liang, the kuomintang has already integrated the air force and the army to prepare for the recall. the party’s top leaders have recently established a three-party support group with think tanks and xie guoliang’s team, and the party chairman zhu lilun personally led the recall election through rolling polls. according to public opinion analysis on the island, the blue and green camps believe that the increase and decrease in the enthusiasm for recalling liang is related to the recent detention of people’s party chairman ko wen-je in connection with the jinghuacheng case, which has also become an alternative consensus between the two parties.

it is understood that the latest internal poll conducted by the kuomintang central committee from september 9 to 11 showed that 43.9% disagreed with the recall, far ahead of the 27.3% who supported the recall; as for those who said they would definitely vote, 49.1% disagreed with the recall, also surpassing the 36.1% who agreed with the recall.

regarding the momentum and popularity of the recall case, a local dpp source said that the personal network in keelung is very dense, and everyone may have family members working in the city government or the second letter system, so the rate of non-statement for recall is very high. the source also lamented that "ko wen-je saved xie guoliang", because the discussion of the ko case attracted the focus of public opinion, which reduced the attention and discussion of the recall. otherwise, if the momentum of six months ago was maintained, xie guoliang might not be saved even by gods.

kmt members observed that the liang removal case will not only affect the morale of the blue camp, but also affect the direction of the party chairman re-election next year. "this is one of the reasons why the central party system led by zhu lilun actively countered the liang removal action." zhu went to keelung for a briefing long before the second phase of the recall petition, requiring the party system to actively participate in the fierce battle, and made a public speech against the malicious recall through the central standing committee, which shows that the party central committee is actively intervening.

in addition, the kmt's top brass also asked the new media department of the cultural and communications commission to launch a social media war, strongly supporting xie guoliang through press conferences, social media promotional cards, etc., and also wooed party leaders, including taipei mayor chiang wan-an, taoyuan mayor chang shan-cheng, new taipei city mayor hou you-yi and others to go to keelung to support the cause. the air and land battles were undoubtedly a preparation for the situation after the recall of liang.

lin jingxian, taiwan correspondent of strait herald