What Kind of Governance Performance Record Is Ko Wen-je Asking from Tsai Ing-wen?

 What Kind of Governance Performance Record Is Ko Wen-je Asking from Tsai Ing-wen?

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

August 26, 2019

 Translation of an Excerpt

Recently when Ko Wen-je was facing the media asking him whether he would enter the 2020 presidential race, he mentioned several times that he was still waiting to see what kind of "governance performance record" President Tsai Ing-wen was going to submit. Ko Wen-je says that if Tsai Ing-wen can take Taiwan to a better direction, then he will not have to run for president; however, if it remains the same, and if Terry Gou is willing to run for president, then he will support Terry Gou.

Ko Wen-je’s remarks sound like he cares for the country and the people, and is thinking hard for the best way out for Taiwan, but in fact, he can hardly camouflage his cunningness of "betting on both sides" and his trickery of "upping the ante on behalf of three parties."

Ko Wen-je has already organized a political party to enter the parliamentary race, claiming to ask Tsai Ing-wen for a governance performance record, otherwise he will support Terry Gou; this shows that Ko Wen-je is demanding more things than people know. On the part of Terry Gou, he is all the time expecting Han Kuo-yu’s support ratings to plummet; in such a case, even if he could not directly replace him, he hoped to change the flags and rise relying on the third force. Thus, although rumors about an alliance between Ko Wen-je, Terry Gou, and Wang Jin-pyng at Taoyuan broke down, the coalition on August 23 seemingly surfaced with the three attending a function at the same time.

On the inaugural meeting of the Taiwan People's Party, Ko Wen-je declared that this was a social movement with culture as its main body, also for first time in Taiwan's history, the first election with an appeal for "changing the political culture." The remarks were high sounding, but just by seeing that he has, on the one hand, maintained entangling ties with the DPP, and on the other, embracied Terry Gou and Wang Jin-pyng, just what does such "betting on both sides and upping the ante on behalf of the three parties" underscore? And what kind of political culture and party values ​​are highlighted? Ko Wen-je should not only introduce questions; before Tsai Ing-wen submits her answer sheet, Ko should also filled in an answer sheet himself!

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