At a sensitive moment, a man with a gun broke into the scene of Ko Wenzhe's activities, did the man want to assassinate Ke Wenzhe? Could there be a mastermind behind this? and what impact will it have on the election situation on the island?
In the previous video program, we talked about that after "Hou Kangpei" lagged behind "Lai Xiaopei" in various poll reports, he threw an olive branch to Ke Wenzhe, trying to return to the old road of "blue and white", but Ke Wenzhe's reaction at that time was relatively cold, and bluntly said that he had "nothing to talk about" with the Kuomintang.
After the refusal, the Kuomintang was quite "annoyed and angry", and former Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu continued to "fire" at Ke Wenzhe, singing down Ke Wenzhe's election prospects.
On January 5, former Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu, who has always been considered to have a good personal relationship with Ko Wenzhe, suddenly publicly clarified that he had never supported Ko Wenzhe. Since Han Kuo-yu himself is quite influential in Taiwan, this move is likely to further reduce Ko's approval ratings.
Immediately afterwards, on January 6, at the "Hou Kangpei" campaign in Taoyuan, Han Yu publicly canvassed for "Hou Kangpei", and directly put his hand into Ke Wenzhe's selection pool.
Han Kuo-yu said: "Ke Wenzhe's election is like an air gun, it is very lively, but it will not be won! Dear supporters of Ke Wenzhe, once again, please turn all the votes back!"
In an interview with the media, Ke Wenzhe said that Han Kuo-yu's statement was under great pressure from within the Kuomintang, "In fact, this is different from what he told me in private."
Han Kuo-yu's public statement sent a very clear signal, that is, the Kuomintang has completely lost hope in the "blue and white cooperation", and has instead begun to attack Ke Wenzhe, trying to snatch votes from Ke Wenzhe's vote base.
According to the poll data released recently, although Ke Wenzhe is at the bottom of the three candidates, he still has a support rate of about 20%, and the gap between "Hou Kangpei" and "Lai Xiaopei" is about 2 to 5 percentage points, so only a small number of voters who absorb Ke Wenzhe are needed, and the KMT is indeed likely to turn around.
However, Ke Wenzhe obviously did not mean to give up, and on the evening of January 6, Ke Wenzhe held a campaign in Taichung, and more than 50,000 supporters poured into the scene to support, and the scene was quite lively.
However, during this period, there was a meaningful episode, according to Taiwanese media China Times News Network, when the on-site security personnel implemented the access control security check, they found that a man was carrying an air gun for no reason, and a magazine with air bullets, as well as items such as pepper spray.
Subsequently, the man was detained by security personnel and handed over to the police for processing, it can be said that this man scared the police out of a cold sweat, in such a dense activity, once there is a gunshot, you can imagine what kind of public opinion will be made, if his target is Ke Wenzhe, the consequences are even more unimaginable.
However, when interrogated, the man insisted that he was a supporter of Mr. Ko, and he also took out a pro-Ko slogan to prove his identity. After identifying the firearm, the police also confirmed that the air gun was limited in power and was not a controlled firearm, but they still believed that the man was carrying dangerous goods for no reason and transferred him to the district court for punishment.
In addition, the police also said that the police would "ensure the personal safety of candidates and will never allow violent interference in elections."
Obviously, from the police's point of view, this incident happened too coincidentally to make people suspicious.
First of all, on January 2, Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of South Korea, had just been attacked at a public event, and the murderer was using Lee Jae-ming's supporter as a cover to take the opportunity to approach Lee Jae-ming and stab him in the neck.
Secondly, Han Kuo-yu has just publicly compared Ke Wenzhe's participation in the election to an air gun, and now someone happens to be carrying an air gun trying to enter Ke Wenzhe's event, is this really just a coincidence, or is someone planning behind it?
So, if there are really gunshots at the scene of Ke Wenzhe's campaign, what will be the impact?
On this issue, the Taiwan region also has a "lesson from the past."
During the 2004 election on the island, the famous "March 19 shooting incident" occurred, and the polling time for that year's election was held on March 20, but just one day before the vote, the Democratic Progressive Party announced that Chen Shui-bian and Annette Lu were shot and injured by unknown shots while holding a campaign in Tainan.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately detonated public opinion on the island, especially the surging condemnation of the Kuomintang, which also directly affected the alliance formed by the Kuomintang and the People First Party, when Lien Chan and Soong Chuyu's support rate itself was leading all the way, but overnight, the DPP achieved a reversal, and finally got 50.11% of the votes, defeating the "Lian Song combination" with a 0.22% advantage.
After the results of the vote were released, "Lian Song" immediately questioned the authenticity of the vote counting results, and at the same time demanded the establishment of a "special committee for truth investigation" to thoroughly investigate the truth of the "March 19 shooting incident."
It was not until four years later, on January 31, 2008, that the "Special Committee for Truth Investigation" released its final report, pointing out that the "March 19 shooting" was a deliberate "fraud" by the DPP.
Therefore, there are now some voices who believe that Ke Wenzhe may want to follow the example of the DPP and make a last-ditch effort, but the security personnel are too responsible, so the plan failed before it even started.
Of course, the specific situation of this matter has not yet been decided, but what is certain is that as the voting date for the election on the island approaches, all forces will definitely rack their brains and unscrupulous means, and in the next few days, everyone can move the bench and eat melons together.