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Why Tsai Ing-wen’s Legitimacy Was So Suddenly Debunked by Lai Ching-te

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 Why Tsai Ing-wen’s Legitimacy Was So Suddenly Debunked by Lai Ching-te

 

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

April 9, 2019

 Translation of an Excerpt

The Tsai-Lai rivalry in the DPP’s presidential primary has currently entered a new deadlock. The five-member coordination group attempted to patch up a "Tsai-Lai ticket," even quickly persuading Vice President Chen Chien-jen not to seek re-election; unexpectedly, the idea was sternly rebuffed by Lai Ching-te, who insisted on completing the primary mechanism. Tsai Ing-wen, on the other hand, has rejected the existing rules of the game in the primary, claiming that she "could not debate the erstwhile premier of her own.” Amidst such tensions, the situation of the DPP’s “solidarity” could be difficult to maintain with the passage of time, with the internal schism becoming deeper and deeper.

After the electoral defeat last yearend, the DPP has never done any soul-searching, but has cavalierly coped with it with reorganizations in the party and administration. Under such circumstances, the support of the external society has seriously eroded, and the internal centripetal force has also become difficult to maintain. Looking ahead at 2020, Tsai Ing-wen’s support ratings have remained No. 3 in different surveys, and it is not only impossible to play the role of “hen” pulling up the party’s legislative candidates, but even possibly dampening the prospects of the entire parliamentary elections. Lai Ching-te, using "grassroots anxieties" as the basis for donning armor for the challenge, relied precisely on this particular ground.

When Tsai Ing-wen said that she could not debate with Lai Ching-te on campaign platforms, she meant, on the one hand, the duo was "one ruling entity" and the responsibility for decision-making could not be divided; on the other hand, she also meant to point out that Lai Ching-te was a premier she appointed, lacking the legitimacy to challenge her. Speaking bluntly, what worries Tsai Ing-wen is that such a debate would expose herself as one “not knowing how to make proper appointments,” even substantiating that the joint governance of one and a half years under the "Tsai-Lai system" was fundamentally chaos.

Lai Ching-te this time using "grassroots anxieties" as the basis to present a challenge, strongly rocked President Tsai Ing-wen's legitimacy in governance, and gave the DPP an enormous problem. Just imagine, Lai Ching-te, at the beginning of the year, resigned to take responsibility for the electoral defeat, but in a turn of a head, those who replaced him were a group of "defeated generals" headed by Su Tseng-chang. Anyone who looked at this picture would have a chilled heart! The weakness of Tsai Ing-wen is in fact herself.

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