Source: Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News
On November 26, the so-called "nine-in-one" elections where 22 counties and cities on the island elected county and city chiefs and councilors and other local public officials voted and counted votes at 4 pm.
According to the statistics of the votes of Taiwan’s election authorities, except for the postponement of the mayor election in Chiayi City, among the 21 county and mayors that have been elected, the Chinese Nationalist Party won 13 seats, the Democratic Progressive Party won 5 seats, and the public The party won 1 seat, and the other 2 seats were non-party members.
Tsai Ing-wen announced her resignation as chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party on the evening of the 26th to show responsibility for the performance of the Democratic Progressive Party in the election.
Looking back at the process, as the Keelung KMT candidate Xie Guoliang announced his election with more than half of the votes, the votes in various counties and cities were announced one after another. The KMT not only held the basic market except Penghu, but after eight years, all except Keelung In addition, it also won back Taipei and Taoyuan again. The Democratic Progressive Party once again ushered in its big defeat. In addition to Kaohsiung , Tainan and Chiayi defending their re-election, even Pingtung, which has always been dark green, won the victory without any risk.
The fierce battle zone in this election Hsinchu is the election of Gao Hongan, who represents the People’s Party, which also means that in this election, several counties and cities that are regarded as indicators of victory and defeat, such as Taipei, Taoyuan, and Hsinchu, and the DPP are all exhausted Losing makes it clear at a glance whether the election will be won or lost. The major defeat of the DPP means that Tsai Ing-wen's leadership will face doubts within the party, and her tenure will be destined to become "lame". In addition, the "18-year-old referendum" held at the same time as the "nine-in-one" election failed to pass the referendum on the amendment to the Basic Law of the island.
According to statistics, the turnout rate this year is low, with about 64% of Taipei City voting, which is slightly lower than the 65.97% turnout rate for Taipei Mayor in 2018. According to statistics from the Election Committee of New Taipei City, the turnout rate this year was only 55.57%, compared with 71.25% in the first session and 61.65% in the second session, which is the lowest turnout rate since New Taipei City was upgraded to a municipality directly under the Central Government. Before the election, many analysts believed that the low turnout rate was beneficial to the DPP, because the willingness of DPP supporters to vote was relatively more determined. But after the election, it was explained that the low turnout rate will not affect the DPP's big defeat.
This election is a reenactment of the reasons for the failure of the DPP in 2018. In short, the atmosphere of hating the DPP has fermented again, and this time it is more profound. A well-known speaker who is now on the green side said that in 2018, the failure of the DPP was traumatic, and in 2022, the DPP Party failures are internal wounds because the power of silence is terrible.
KMT Taipei mayoral candidate Jiang Wanan
In this election, blue and green hardly have any special political stars. There is no political wave like South Korean Yu last time. Some chiefs of blue and green counties and cities who are fighting for re-election are trying to reduce the heat of the election so that they can be re-elected smoothly. In some hot spots of fighting, the political charm and appeal of each other's candidates cannot even cover their own base. For example, at the beginning, Jiang Wan'an's words were too cautious and lacked content, which made people drowsy, but fortunately, he strengthened later and dared to express his attitude at the first time. Zhang Shanzheng After Lin Zhijian withdrew from the election due to plagiarism in his thesis, he did not show his momentum in time. Of course, his opponent Zheng Yunpeng seemed to be less popular than him. lost their political integrity. The most subtle thing is Gao Hongan from Hsinchu. In fact, to Bluegreen, Hsinchu is an insignificant place. Gao is also a relative amateur who lacks election experience and experience. However, because of the selfishness of Ke Jianming, the chief summoner of the DPP party group, he excessively attacked Gao Hongan, which in turn fueled Gao's momentum.
Former Hsinchu Mayor Lin Zhijian
Of course compared to the blue and white relatively mediocre candidates, the candidates launched by the DPP, in addition to their own mediocrity, more importantly, they stem from arrogance on the one hand, and on the other hand Also because of the internal struggle for power. From the beginning of the nomination, it was doomed to meet them. It will be a disaster. They nominated Lin Zhijian to run in Taoyuan, but there was a problem with the integrity of his academic qualifications. Although Lin withdrew from the election to stop the loss , the DPP did not stop there. They did not hesitate to make enemies of the doubting public and even the academic circles on the island. Even if the truth finally came to light, neither Tsai Ing-wen nor Lin Zhijian expressed apology to the public from the beginning to the end. Candidates they launched for Taipei, should have become the leader of this election, but the DPP disregarded the perceptions of the citizens of Taipei and launched Chen Shizhong, who had too much hatred, but became a target that affected the overall situation.
Fundamentally speaking, this election is a vote of opposition from the people on the island against the DPP's perverse actions over the years. When Tsai Ing-wen first elected, she used "How have you been in the past four years?" okay! The answer is obvious.
In 2020, the Democratic Progressive Party won the victory. In the face of the raging epidemic, it still launched a retaliatory dismissal of the then Kaohsiung mayor Han Guoyu. Removal activities emerged in an endless stream. Blue and green have mutual gains and losses, but they also lose the possibility of reaching reconciliation among the people on the island.
Tsai Ing-wen was re-elected, subverting past ideas on many issues. For example, they immediately started the import of American "Laizhu" and Japan's "nuclear food" that they opposed in the past, terminated the "referendum tied to the general election", destroyed algal reefs, and so on. However, the "four major referendums" launched by the blue camp failed because of their insufficient organizational mobilization ability and efforts, which also contributed to Tsai Ing-wen's momentum and made her more arbitrary. nomination primaries instead of nominations by themselves. This election also proved that her nomination strategy is full of major flaws. She parachuted Lin Zhijian to Taoyuan, and let Lin Zhijian choose his own successor. All these actually offended some local forces of the DPP. To a certain extent, the outbreak of Lin Zhijian's problem is rooted in the internal struggle among their own people. Tsai Ing-wen's deeds, even a hardcore dark green like Li Yuanzhe couldn't stand it, and criticized Tsai Ing-wen severely during the interview.
Pelosi 's visit to Taiwan, and a series of international speculative politicians' visits to Taiwan afterward, seem to boost the momentum of the DPP, but in fact, these actions have caused the greatest anxiety among the Taiwan Strait, making Falling into tension, the people on the island also discovered that the "anti-China protection Taiwan" that the DPP fooled, in addition to stimulating the mainland and creating a sense of tension on both sides of the strait, the DPP has no ability to keep the island safe, even It is itself the biggest source of chaos in the Taiwan Strait.
After the Democratic Progressive Party came to power, various forces scrambled for power and profit, the food was very ugly, and corruption prevailed. For example, Zheng Wencan was in Taoyuan, and Lin Zhijian was in Hsinchu. During this election, various construction shady scenes have been exposed-some infrastructure projects have continued to increase investment, and the additional part is even more than the initial investment. Moreover, these heavily invested projects have cut corners and become tofu projects. Of course, there are all kinds of insider trading, and the constant exposure of corruption and extortion makes the DPP's so-called "clean and diligent government and love the country" slogan very ironic.
has been fighting against the epidemic for three years, except that the initial outbreak of the epidemic on Taiwan Island did not occur in the early stage. Afterwards, various sloppy anti-epidemic actions made the island’s epidemic situation finally broken, and many procurement shady scenes were exposed. They even tried every means to prevent private procurement of vaccines in order to promote the self-produced vaccine . Recently, it has also been reported that some people are acting as vaccine brokers, regardless of whether the people are dead or alive, and they are actually making profits from it.
On the other hand, the DPP and the gangsters colluded with each other, from the chairman of the DPP down to the police officials and the gangsters. Corresponding to this is the deterioration of public security on the island, with continuous shootings and various vicious criminal cases.
This is the failure of the DPP, and of course it is the failure of Tsai Ing-wen. Before the election, Tsai Ing-wen went to various places to assist in the election. He brazenly said to his supporters, "Choosing the candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party means supporting Tsai Ing-wen." This failure means that the people on the island have clearly expressed that they reject Tsai Ing-wen and the kidnapping by the DPP.
Just like the media person Li Yanqiu commented, Tsai Ing-wen said before the election that if the DPP loses, how would the international view Taiwan, but now the international view is that the DPP’s hate value is off the charts. The author of
丨Xu Yi, Shenzhen Satellite TV direct news special editor
