This article first published today's headlines, Liu Fufeng Studio, author: Sun Yuliang
Zhao Shaokang, a veteran Taiwanese media personality and chairman of China Guangdong Corporation, recently staged a "self-nomination" play. On January 17, the fourth "Youth Experience Camp" held by the Kuomintang opened, and Zhao Shaokang, the mentor of the "Youth Experience Camp", was asked "who is most suitable to represent the KMT in 2024 to run for the leadership of the Taiwan region", and his answer was: "The answer is of course me".
Zhao Shaokang is the leader of the "Battle Blue" of the Kuomintang Blue Camp, and believes that he is "the most suitable candidate to represent the KUOMINTang in 2024 to run for the leadership of the Taiwan region" in terms of "knowledge, ability, integrity, foresight, and pattern". Worthy of the "battle blue" style, there are still more than two years to go before the general election of the leader of the Taiwan region, and Zhao Shaokang has already revealed his sharp edge and is bound to win. Zhao Shaokang, whose ancestral home is In Xiangxian County, Hebei Province, was once known as the "Golden Boy of Politics", and his eloquence has nothing to say, he is a senior media person. But being a media and being a politician are two different things, and whether he can win the nomination within the KMT is the first hurdle he passes first.
At present, the most promising candidates in the KMT for the 2024 election are Zhu Lilun, chairman of the KMT, and Hou Youyi, the mayor of New Taipei. Of course, Zhu Lilun hopes to be the leader of the Taiwan region, otherwise he would not have worked hard to run for the chairmanship of the Kuomintang; he had already "tried his hand with a knife" before, and was ordered to be in danger in the "storm of changing pillars." Unfortunately, he failed. In the election for chairman of the Kuomintang, he defeated former KMT chairman Jiang Qichen, the challenger Zhang Yazhong, the principal of Sun Wen School, and Zhuo Boyuan, the former governor of Changhua County, and has shown that he has certain political means. However, it was defeated in the "Four Referendums", "Strike Cases" and "Secondary Two By-Elections", and morale was demoralized. However, there are still more than two years to go before 2024, and he still has time and opportunities to work hard.
Hou Youyi belongs to the kind of pragmatic faction that is steady and steady, and he will not participate in the argument of the right words, and even the "four referendums" that determine the fate of the Kuomintang are beyond the world. If in terms of party spirit, he is not a "good party member", even for the current Kuomintang, he has a lot of views and is not loyal. However, Hou Youyi can be a good "good mayor", and the reason why he has won a good position in various polls, even surpassing Lai Qingde, deputy leader of the Taiwan region, is not how well he said it, but how well he did it. The eyes of the masses are shining, and Hou Youyi is transcendent of party struggle, but he can win the will of the people, and this is precisely where his "strength" lies. But can Zhu Lilun nominate him as the KMT's candidate for the leadership of the Taiwan region? Now it's a big question mark.
In the DPP camp, Zhao Shaokang also has two potential opponents, one is Lai Ching-te, deputy leader of the Taiwan region, and the other is General Tsai Ing-wen and Taoyuan Mayor Zheng Wencan. Lai Ching-te is a representative figure of the New Trend Department within the DPP, known for "pragmatic Taiwan independence," previously served as the head of the administrative organs of the Taiwan region, and now under one person and above ten thousand people, he is the deputy leader of the Taiwan region. This time, Tsai Ing-wen also sent him to transit through the United States as "Tsai Ing-wen's special envoy" to attend the inauguration ceremony of the new president of Honduras, making it clear that he was training him. In the poll, Lai Ching-te is the most promising figure in the DPP camp to be elected as the leader of the Taiwan region in 2024, and his strength is strong.
Taoyuan Mayor Zheng Wencan, once known as Tsai Ing-wen's "Crown Prince," was the director of the Democratic Progressive Party's Cultural Propaganda Department, the director of the Information Bureau, and the spokesman of the executive branch. In a poll in early 2021, Zheng Wencan's satisfaction with his administration in Taoyuan was as high as 79.4%, which shows that he also has certain governance capabilities. Therefore, the outside world is rumored that Tsai Ing-wen deliberately cultivated Zheng Wencan and cultivated him as a successor. However, according to his qualifications, it is obviously inferior to Lai Qingde in the DPP, and if Lai Qingde participates in the 2024 election, the two will have a dragon fight.
In addition to the DPP's rivals, People's Party Chairman Ko Wen-che is also one of the potential candidates for taiwan's leadership in 2024. The People's Party is a small party, but Ko Wen-che is the mayor of Taipei City, and his reputation is growing. Ko Wen-che has frankly said that he is "directly preparing to elect the leader of the Taiwan region in 2024", and Taipei Vice Mayor Huang Shanshan also confirmed that Ko Wenzhe has this idea. There is also a small episode here: Hao Longbin, former vice chairman of the Kuomintang, appealed to the People's Party for "blue and white cooperation" for the "nine-in-one" county mayoral election, and Ke Wenzhe ridiculed that he sincerely proposed "blue-green cooperation", and he would defeat "blue-green cooperation" alone and politely rejected Hao Longbin. Ke Wenzhe is a fanciful figure, but the more such an opponent, the more confusing it is.
For Zhao Shaokang's self-recommendation, Hao Longbin expressed his position very directly, believing that Zhao Shaokang was "definitely the right person", and Hou Youyi also shouted to Zhao Shaokang, "Come on, very good". However, whether this was true or something to deal with, it could only be Zhao Shaokang himself to guess and think. It is still early from 2024, the 2022 "nine-in-one" county mayor election will be held at the end of the year, people's mood is obviously preparing for the events in front of this year, Zhao Shaokang wants to be "Mao Sui", Zhu Lilun may not be "Pingyuan Jun", he now has no time to take care of Zhao Shaokang's passion. Zhu Lilun's next trip was to go to Japan first and then to the United States, paving the way for himself and the future of the Kuomintang.