The "nine-in-one" election campaign for grassroots public officials in Taiwan has come to an end, and the Democratic Progressive Party represented by Tsai Ing-wen ended in a crushing defeat. In addition to the postponement of the vote in Chiayi City, the Kuomintang won 13 seats and the Democratic Progressive Party won only 5 of the 21 county mayors that have been elected. Taiwan's political, economic, and technological centers are no longer controlled by the DPP, which is considered the DPP's "worst achievement" in local elections in 36 years.
The so-called "nine-in-one" election refers to nine local elections on the island, including the election of county mayors and parliamentarians, and the competition between the Kuomintang and the Democratic Progressive Party is very fierce in each election. In previous years, the DPP repeatedly suppressed its opponents in bottomless ways, exaggerating the people's panic about the mainland on the island to deceive votes. This time, the DPP repeated its old tricks and played the "resist China and defend Taiwan" card in the election, but it was defeated by the opposite.
Tsai Ing-wen immediately resigned as chairman of the DPP after the election results were announced, and declared responsible for the election defeat, while the head of Taiwan's administrative department and former DPP chairman Su Zhenchang submitted her resignation to Tsai Ing-wen at the same time, but Tsai Ing-wen refused.
The DPP's defeat in this election is mainly due to its own lack of contention and the impassability of the road of "resisting China and defending Taiwan", which has led to some deep-rooted problems becoming more and more serious. His own lack of contention is mainly reflected in the continuous controversy of candidates recommended by Tsai Ing-wen, Lin Zhijian and Chen Shi, who are deeply caught in the negative vortex of plagiarism and peach news, and the image of the DPP in the hearts of the people on the island has suffered a heavy setback.
It is an obvious fact that the "anti-China defense of Taiwan" is unsustainable. Jie Wenji, a former foreign affairs official and well-known media personality, commented that Tsai Ing-wen's biggest problem was that she was not pragmatic, used the ideological set to fool the people, and relied on the four big characters of "resisting China and protecting Taiwan" to get through the pass twice and was able to govern Taiwan Island.
Jie Wenji pointed out that Tsai Ing-wen and Su Zhenchang criticized DPP officials and brought the Taiwanese people to war, poverty and chaos internally. Flattering the United States to the outside world and handing over the dominance, such as importing the "Lai pig" from the United States, forcing TSMC to build a factory in the United States, listening to the words of the Americans and planning to fight street battles with the PLA.
Speaking of the election results, Jie Wenji bluntly said that the DPP lost to Tsai Ing-wen, Tsai Ing-wen is fully responsible, and she and her elite clique have destroyed the DPP and Taiwan. In the past, Taiwan's economy was a little worse and the unemployment rate was higher, and the Taiwan people could endure it, but now they are directly pushing Taiwan into the flames of war.
Jie Wenji believes that the election results show that the Taiwanese people have awakened this time, and they used their votes to score Tsai Ing-wen's perverse behavior, taught her a good lesson, and warned them to retreat. The Taiwanese people are saving themselves from letting Tsai Ing-wen and her group destroy Taiwan. However, Jie Wenji also said that the people and politicians on the island should not be too optimistic, because Tsai Ing-wen and others have thick skins to the extreme, and will think of various ways to deal with the situation, and they cannot be soft on them.
Tian Hongmao, chairman of the former Strait Exchange Foundation (SEF), saw the prospects for the development of cross-strait relations from the election results. He predicted that after the KMT takes control of Taipei City, it will actively carry out dialogues with mainland cities, and subtle changes will take place in cross-strait relations next year, and the situation between the two sides of the strait will change somewhat in the next two to three years.
In response to questions related to the "nine-in-one" election in Taiwan, Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said that the election results reflected the mainstream public opinion on the island to "seek peace, stability and live a good life." The mainland side will continue to unite the broad masses of compatriots, jointly promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, enhance the well-being of compatriots on both sides of the strait, and resolutely oppose any "Taiwan independence" separatist forces and external interference forces.
In the past, the DPP suffered a major defeat in local elections and fought back two years later, and after this defeat, it cannot be ruled out that the DPP authorities will adopt a more radical policy and make a desperate bet for the two-year election. What needs to be reminded to the DPP authorities is that the Taiwan people are now not fooled, and if they do not adjust cross-strait policies in a timely manner, Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP will only have a dead end.