On March 19, 2004, the day before Taiwan’s presidential election, a gun attack on then-president Chen Shui-bian and vice president Annette Lu, who were battling to be re-elected, was assessed as having had a significant impact on the poll’s results. The two, who both survived slightly...
A little more than 14 percent of the Taiwanese population favors the KMT, compared to nearly 31 percent for the DPP, according to the most recent Election Study Center at Taiwan’s National Chengchi Universitypublished in January. A pollby the Chinese-language United Daily News on May 24 gave...
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“group events” in a democratic society. In Taiwan, ever since the ban on opposition party formation and free press was lifted in 1987, there has never been a presidential election as “uneventful” as the one in 2012. Naturally, when the people can take the poll station, they don’t ...
opinion polls and political observers don’t indicate that. Although a survey commissioned by the Chinese-language Apple Daily had Chu leading 33.5 percent to Tsai at 30.4 percent, 36.1 percent of the respondents had yet to make up their minds. The same poll put Hau’s lead over Su Tseng-...
The presidential election is coming in a few month, and once again this could be a turning point…or not, we shall see. But the fact of the matter is, Ma’s incompetence has given Taiwan another chance. This might sound kind of counter intuitive, because if the President of Taiwan and...
Maybe even asking if the China KMT martial law has really “ended” is indicative of this fallacy. China KMT’s colonization of Taiwan and its brutal dictatorship, from 1945 to 1996, did not end cleanly with the formal end of martial law or the first democratic presidential election. This ...
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Sabre-rattling by Beijing has heightened the rhetoric between the DPP and the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) ahead of the poll. KMT supporters accuse the DPP candidate Lai Ching-te of risking war with China, while the ruling party suggests KMT hopeful Hou Yu-ih’s talk about more compromise with...