Ko Wen-je was once again exposed in a scandal. The case of Taiwan People's Party Chairman Ko Wen-je's false accounts of political donations continued to spread. He made notices for two consecutive days on August 23 and 24 that he would hold another press conference to "clear all

Ke Wenzhe was exposed in another scandal

The case of Taiwan People’s Party Chairman Ke Wenzhe’s false accounts of political donations continues to spread. He made notices for two consecutive days on August 23 and 24, saying that he would hold another press conference to “clear all doubts” about the case at once. While apologizing again, he emphasized that "as a coach, of course I have to bear the greatest responsibility and will not avoid it." However, before the outside world could wait for his "explanation", more scandals were revealed about him, including those who were involved earlier. Multiple cheating cases have been exposed one after another and subsequent developments have emerged.

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Peng Zhensheng, a key figure in the Jinghua City case involving Ke Wenzhe and former deputy mayor of Taipei City during his tenure, rushed to the investigation team on the morning of the 26th to give an explanation. Three hours later, Peng Zhensheng left without saying a word.

According to Xu Shuhua, a member of the investigation team responsible for the case, Peng Zhensheng pointed out at the meeting that he was "assigned by Ke Wenzhe." Xu Shuhua said that Peng Zhensheng clarified the three key doubts about the case from the outside world. From this, "the answer is about to come out, and Ke Wenzhe may not be able to escape."

In addition, Taipei City Councilor Lin Yanfeng of the Democratic Progressive Party dropped another "bomb" on the 26th, revealing that Ke Wenzhe purchased a "personal office" in May this year with NT$45 million in cash, approximately RMB 9 million. However, the office address shows that a company was registered here in 2000 and has not moved out yet. This raises questions about whether Ke Wenzhe used political donations to buy houses and rent them out as a "renter."

Ke Wenzhe responded to this when he left the People's Party headquarters in the morning. He said that he was referring to the examples of other candidates and "used that money to set up a personal office, which will be used for a long time." When asked whether it was an individual or a party office, Ke Wenzhe said, "My personal one." However, Ko Wenzhe's response was still "chased" by people from the Democratic Progressive Party. DPP Taipei City Councilor Jian Shupei questioned that when Ko Wenzhe purchased the office building, he chose to use it in his personal name rather than in the name of the party, which made the building his personal property. Property, "Using election funds to purchase a personal office makes 'Xiaocao (Ke Wenzhe's supporter)' feel embarrassed."

“Purchasing a personal office with election money is a stupid and strange act.” Xie Hanbing, a senior media person on the island, said bluntly on a political commentary program on the 26th, “How to use this money? The People’s Party has previously said that it will be donated to the party headquarters, To do charity and to handle party affairs, but there is no mention of setting up an office for Ke Wenzhe." Xie Hanbing raised three doubts about this: First, has the People's Party made a resolution on Ke Wenzhe using election funds to buy an office? Furthermore, when purchasing a personal office, "What are you going to do?" Third, "Public funds are used for private purposes. Who made this decision?"

It is worth pointing out that regarding the suspicion of political donations and other political abuses, the People's Party and Ke Wenzhe have not yet been able to give a satisfactory explanation to the outside world. There is no doubt that the "corruption character" that Ke Wenzhe has worked hard to build for ten years is about to fall apart.

Ke Wenzhe and the People's Party have a dim future

Various accounting doubts have pushed Ke Wenzhe to the forefront, and the "future and destiny" of his party may also be at stake.

"The crisis management between Ke Wenzhe and the People's Party was substandard, even a huge failure." Island current affairs commentator Niu Zexun pointed out in an interview with Taiwan.com: "Ke Wenzhe's temporary resignation as chairman of the People's Party is a responsible and effective way to stop the bleeding. It is also the only way to survive. But will Ke Wenzhe resign in the end? This decision will not be easy."

People's Party Taipei City Councilor Lin Zhenyu also pointed out, "From the outbreak of the accounting dispute to now, the People's Party has really not done well." This is not a sentence. "The money did not fall into anyone's pocket" can be explained clearly. The People's Party should spend more efforts to let supporters know about the entire issue of political donations, and face and improve the problem of wrong accounting and omission of accounts.

According to the latest polls on the island, the People’s Party’s dissatisfaction rate is 65.3%, which is a new high since the party was founded in 2019.It is worth noting that this poll shows that participants aged 20 to 29 have a higher degree of dislike (45.6%) than favorability (38.3%) towards the People’s Party; the contrast is even more obvious among those aged 30 to 39, with a degree of dislike of 58.7%, and the favorability rating is only 28.2%. It can be seen that the loss of "little grass" has been quite serious.

In addition, another polling column on the island shows that about 80% of the people do not believe that Ke Wenzhe is "innocent". "Ke Wenzhe, as the top leader of the People's Party, has the biggest problems and the most flaws." "How can it be that Ke Wenzhe's IQ of 157 is not clear? "Accounts", some people also believe that "the opinions of people within the People's Party are inconsistent, and there are too many doubts."

In fact, comments on the island have long pointed out that the outbreak of the People's Party's series of fraud cases is more like a "political pursuit" carefully planned by the Democratic Progressive Party. The DPP will definitely pursue Ke Wenzhe fiercely. As long as Ke Wenzhe is defeated, the votes that originally went to the People's Party will flow back to the DPP. Once Ke Wenzhe is sentenced for the fraud case, the People's Party will inevitably accelerate its bubble formation, and its so-called "third force", like the People's First Party and the New Party, is just a flash in the pan.[Source丨Shenzhen Satellite TV Direct News WeChat Text丨Zhuo Yizi]