The 2022 election "Tsai Ing-wen 2.0" launched a throat-cutting war against Blue

Source: Taiwan Straits Network

◆ Kuomintang Governor Lin Zimiao's interview with the Taiwan authorities' "Independent Commission Against Corruption" has triggered an uproar in the island's political circles (Taiwan media/photo)

The 2022 election "Tsai Ing-wen 2.0" launched a throat-cutting war against Blue

Lin Zimiao, governor of Yilan County of the Kuomintang, was interviewed by the Taiwan authorities' "Independent Commission Against Corruption."

Taiwan Straits Herald reporter Lin Lianjin, January 15 (Taiwan Straits Herald reporter) Taiwan's election department announced on January 14 that the 2022 county mayoral election will be held on November 26. Just the day before, on January 13, Lin Zimiao, the governor of Yilan County of the Chinese Kuomintang, and relevant personnel were interviewed by the Taiwan authorities' "Independent Commission Against Corruption of the Ministry of Justice" and the Yilan District Procuratorate, and the county government and more than 30 other places were searched on the grounds that Lin Zimiao and others were involved in the Yilan Luodong land development embezzlement case.

In the early hours of yesterday morning, Lin Zimiao, who was interrogated overnight, "asked to return without security" and left the Yilan District Prosecutor's Office with a tired face. However, some county government officials have been detained by prosecutors, and many well-known people in Yilan have also been interviewed.

Taiwan's "Independent Commission Against Corruption" suddenly interviewed Lin Zimiao, causing an uproar in the island's political circles. Is there really a problem with Lin Zimiao, or is it the DPP that uses the "Olympic Steps" (bad tricks) to do things. Some analysts have pointed out that if a certain political figure is innocent, as long as he is involved in a corruption lawsuit, he is often unable to argue with his mouth, and the election situation will suffer a major impact.

The KMT held a press conference yesterday to bitterly criticize the DPP for killing the red eye for the sake of the "nine-in-one" election at the end of the year, and has pushed the KMT step by step, launched a throat-cutting war, and wanted to crack down on all the counties and cities where the KMT is ruling. You Yinglong, chairman of the pro-green "Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation," yesterday interpreted Lin Zimiao's interview, saying that the 2022 election campaign will be "bloody," that "Tsai Ing-wen 2.0" has arrived, and that "opposition parties" will "wait and wait" (while trembling and waiting).

Kuomintang Yilan County Governor "Involved in Corruption"?

He was interviewed by Taiwan's "Independent Commission Against Corruption" overnight

On 13 January, the Yilan County government reported that it had been searched by the Taiwan authorities' "Independent Commission Against Corruption," and that personnel from the "Independent Commission Against Corruption" had gone to more than 30 places in the morning, including the official residence of County Governor Lin Zimiao, the office of the county government's land administration director, and the family residences of relevant personnel, and brought them back to Lin Zimiao and others for interviews.

Taiwan media reported that the reason for the search was that Lin Zimiao and others were suspected of the Yilan Luodong land development fraud case. The "Independent Commission Against Corruption" also took away Yang Chongming, director of the prefectural government's land administration department, Wu Chaoqin, acting director of the construction department, Huang Zhiliang, director of the transportation department, and Zeng Chengyang, director of the secretariat. In addition, Wu Qiuling, mayor of Luodong Town, Lin Shumei (a relative of Lin Zimiao), former "NATIONAL Congress representative", and Lin Zimiao's children also cooperated in the investigation, and more than 20 people were interviewed.

Taiwan media pointed out that after more than 10 hours of interrogation, Lin Zimiao arrived at the Yilan District Prosecutor's Office at nearly 5 a.m. on the 14th for further interrogation. She got out of the car with a tired look, an unsteady pace, and did not say a word. It was not until 9:12 a.m. that Lin Zimiao was "uninsured to return" and left the district prosecutor's office.

According to the latest taiwan media reports, in this case, a man surnamed Lin was ordered to pay 100,000 yuan (NT$, the same below) on bail, and Wu Chaoqin was asked to be detained by the prosecutor; Yang Chongming was ordered to pay 50,000 yuan in bail in accordance with the "Ordinance on the Punishment of Corruption"; and the rest of the people were invited back.

The Yilan District Prosecutor's Office said that the main reason for the investigation of this case was the case of yilan County Government's 2019 Luodong land exemption from value-added tax, and the 2020 Luodong land urban plan change case. However, lawyer Jian Rongzong pointed out that if the relevant evidence was obtained in the previous two years, why did the investigation not begin until this year, and the end of the year coincided with the "nine-in-one" election, it is inevitable that there will be doubts under Guatian Lixia.

Lin Zimiao was invincible in Yilan

The DPP makes an election "Obu"

The case of Lin Zimiao's sudden interview has aroused the attention of the outside world in Taiwan's political circles, and many people are even more associated with this wave of operations by the Taiwan authorities, which may be related to the county mayor election on November 26.

Lin Zimiao will turn 70 this year, her husband is the former "provincial councilor" Lin Mingzheng, died in 1994, she raised four children alone, in 1998 inherited her husband's legacy, and then ran for yilan county councilor, officially entered the political arena. In 2009, as the first high-voting member of the Three Consecutive Powers, he was elected as the first female mayor of Luodong; in 2014, under the poor environment of the Kuomintang, Lin was successfully re-elected; in 2018, Lin was elected as the governor of Yilan County, becoming the first female county magistrate of Yilan, allowing Yilan to reappear in the "blue sky" after 9 years of two terms, shocking the political arena.

Public opinion pointed out that counting Lin Zimiao's political experience can be called "invincible", all the way from Yilan County Councilor and Luodong Town Mayor to Yilan County Governor, although he was questioned that he "does not read official documents", but with his achievements deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, he bravely ranked in the top three in major polls, and Yilan County became the happiest city on The island of Taiwan. Yilan County has become the most difficult political territory for the DPP to conquer.

In 2022, the polls were so high that Lin Zimiao, who frightened the Green Camp, was determined to win re-election. However, the DPP was pleasantly surprised to find that in last year's "four major referendums," some counties and cities ruled by the Blue Camp actually had the advantage of "disagreeing with the votes," including Yilan County, believing that this might become a breakthrough point in the Year-end election for the Green Camp.

Sure enough, Yilan was the first to "have an accident". Some analysis on the island pointed out that the use of justice to crack down on political opponents is very common in Taiwan's political circles, and even if a certain political figure is innocent, as long as he is involved in a corruption lawsuit, he is often unable to defend himself, and the election situation suffers a major impact, even if the court proves his innocence in the end, the election may be over long ago. Lin Zimiao's political achievements in the past three years or so have been very good, and there would not have been much of a problem in being re-elected, but now she is involved in a "corruption case", which has made the election situation at the end of the year have greatly changed. Moreover, Yilan County was once known as the so-called "holy land of democracy", and the grass-roots forces of the Green Camp were not weak.

Blue batches of green began to slit the throat of the election

The 2022 election campaign is bloody

In view of the incident of Lin Zimiao being interviewed, the lanying Yilan county councilors have been upset with Lin Zimiao, believing that Lin Zimiao's re-election momentum is good, and her political achievements have been affirmed by the county people, but before the election at the end of the year, she was suddenly investigated by the judicial organs, making it difficult for the outside world not to associate with the election. Lin Yuexian, a county councillor, said that Lin Zimiao's support has been growing steadily, and the polls are also leading, and this incident has a really big impact on Lin Zimiao. For politicians, integrity is the first, he believes in Lin Zimiao's innocence, but he is worried that the judiciary may not return Lin Zimiao's innocence until after the vote. Some people are also dissatisfied and angry and point out, "This is the DPP's Obu."

Yesterday, You Yinglong, chairman of the "Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation," said that after experiencing elections such as the "four major referendums" and the "secondary two by-elections," "Tsai Ing-wen 2.0" has done whatever she wants and given what she wants. In response to Lin Zimiao's interview, You Yinglong said that Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party may use the inspection and investigation to crack down on the "opposition" county mayors, if this is the case, it will start to be so "bloody" in early 2022, and the "opposition parties" will really have to "grin and wait".

The KMT held a press conference on 14 July, bitterly criticizing the DPP for pressing the KMT step by step for the "nine-in-one" election at the end of the year, almost cutting its throat to the point of breaking through the counties and cities where the Blue Camp is ruling.

The KMT bitterly criticized it; from the by-election of the "legislators" in Taichung's second constituency, it has seen that the DPP has attacked Yan Kuanheng's family through inspections, famous mouths, and network flanks, and even began to hunt down and kill the KMT politically after the election, including Yunlin County Governor Zhang Lishan, Taichung Mayor Lu Xiuyan, and now pointing at Yilan County Governor Lin Zimiao, which is infuriating. Although Lin Zimiao "asked for return without security," Kuomintang Chairman Zhu Lilun said that this had seriously damaged Lin's reputation and called on the DPP to respect the judiciary and not turn into a political pursuit. The Kuomintang must be strong and united.