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It’s Best that Tsai Kept Distance from the DPP

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 It’s Best that Tsai Kept Distance from the DPP

 

China Times Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

 

January 16, 2020


 Translation of an Excerpt

 

 

 

Viewed from the surface, in these general elections, the DPP won a landslide victory, not only winning the presidential election, but also securing a majority of seats in the Legislative Yuan. However, after meticulous analysis, we may find that the results of at-large legislative elections, popularly dubbed as political party votes, the DPP only earned 4,811,224 votes, or 33.9% of the total, not much different from the KMT’s 33.3%. In contrast with the DPP’s 5,370,953 votes it won 4 years ago, or 44.05%, the total declined over 10%.

 

The DPP’s showing was not bad in the presidential election and district legislator elections, which relied more on personal factors, but in the image or support ratings of political parties, its performance, nevertheless, was in the doldrums, demonstrating popular dissatisfaction with the DPP’s governance performance. Although the people are willing to allow the DPP to remain as the ruling party, they do not hope that it controls at the same time the majority of seats in the Legislative Yuan, so as to avoid, as in the past four years, the abuse of a majority of seats to do whatever it wanted to do, contravening respect for the minority and the spirit of inclusiveness and compromise, which are indispensable in democratic politics.

 

The combination of an overwhelmingly re-elected president and a ruling party with an exceedingly low degree of identification, in considering its degree of support, it should not only look at personal high indicators, but pay attention to the low indicators of the team; it should alert itself never, ever believe that its support overflows and feel exceedingly arrogant. Exactly the opposite, it must always remember that nearly two-thirds of the people do not identify with it, so it must suppress itself, so as to win back popular trust and support.

 

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