With the 2009 County Magistrate Elections on the doorsteps of each party's headquarters, both Ma Ying-jeou and Tsai Ing-wen have made great efforts to ensure his or her party's "cleanness, anti-corruption, solidarity, diligence, and unselfish love of the people and land with the aim of winning". This election is actually very crucial because the results of this elections can greatly reflect Ma's administration, almost like a mid-term exams TASers will receive in December as well.Today Ma went to the Central Advisory Commitee of the KMT. "Ma told the senior party members that the KMT aims to become a decent, clean, and diligent political party with love to the people" and stated that ones who go against voting rules will be punished. The DPP on the other hand called up Tsai and three Legislative Whips to disparage Ma's actions, stating that there had been too many violations since Ma was inauguarated as president of ROC. Tsai also expressed that this victory would lead to more future wins.
Personally, I believe this election would be more of an uphill battle for the KMT because not only has Typhoon Morakot baned Ma's reputation, but are the KMT members also vying for nominations, causing great internal conflict. KMT really needs to settle down its members so it can secure wins. DPP on the other hand, is more on a revival state but still needs to be aware of the plausible hardships that lay ahead.
Source: http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2009/10/19/229154/Campaigning-begins.htm
The capitalistic competition "democracy" is absurd but still serves to keep the parties more or less in line.
ReplyDeleteBoth of the parties want to portray themselves as Taiwan loving politicians. They also want to keep clean from the mud water ex-president Chen has fallen into. But they are all wrong.
ReplyDeleteWhat Taiwan needs is a government that is efficient, not just a government that loves its people but are too lazy to do anything.
"Ma told the senior party members that the KMT aims to become a decent, clean, and diligent political party with love to the people"
ReplyDeleteI believe "diligent" would act to portray them as not lazy.
LOL, i couldn't even focus on the article due to the photo of Tsai Ing-wen. But she indeed posed sexily.
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