In the second round of voting, Kuomintang "legislator" Han Kuo-yu successfully won 54 votes, ahead of the Democratic Progressive Party's "legislator" You Xikun (kūn) with 51 votes, and was successfully elected as the head of Taiwan's legislature. This is also the first time in eight years that the Kuomintang has regained the throne of the "dragon head" of Taiwan's legislature.
Immediately after Han Kuo-yu, in the election of the deputy head of Taiwan's legislature, former Kuomintang Chairman Jiang Qichen won 54 votes in the second round of voting and was successfully elected.
We know that the election of the head of Taiwan's legislature can be said to be a rather difficult one, because this is the first three-way contest in history, the Kuomintang, the Democratic Progressive Party, and the People's Party. Moreover, none of the three parties has more than half of the seats, and even Han Kuo-yu, who was elected this time, only won 54 votes in the end, which is not more than half.
Han Kuo-yu and Jiang Qichen
Here I have to mention that the people's party's Ke Wenzhe's divine operation. With the KMT and the DPP holding less than half of the seats, and the gap between the two sides is extremely small, the People's Party, which has eight seats, has become a key minority and is the target of the KMT and the DPP competing for wooing.
For example, in the election of the head of Taiwan's legislature, although the People's Party put forward its own candidates, it did not directly support either side. But in fact, the Kuomintang occupies more seats, and the People's Party's failure to help each other is actually equivalent to "secretly helping" the Kuomintang.
In fact, the day before the vote, there were already signs. For example, Chen Zhihan, spokesman for the People's Party, said in a political discussion program on the island that the People's Party has always adopted an open attitude to listen to opinions, but the DPP is very chaotic. When asked how he felt about Han Kuo-yu, the first member of the Chinese Kuomintang, Chen Zhihan said, "Very sincere."
Ke Wenzhe
In this election, the Kuomintang and Han Kuo-yu are certainly the biggest winners, but the People's Party and Ko Wenzhe are also the winners. By avoiding becoming "blue or green," it has established the People's Party's position as a key minority in Taiwan's legislature, and no matter who wants to win them over in the future. Moreover, this time he secretly helped the Kuomintang and Han Kuo-yu, and Han Kuo-yu will definitely get a response from Han Kuo-yu in the future.
In addition, it is worth noting that because Han Kuo-yu was elected without half of the votes, this not only made him the first person in charge of Taiwan's legislature to be elected with a relative majority of votes, but also means that Han Kuo-yu or the Kuomintang must win the support of the opposition parties or the People's Party if they want to promote legislation or amend laws in the future, otherwise the KMT alone will not be able to pass it with less than half of the votes. This is undoubtedly not very good news for the DPP authorities.
Of course, even if the KMT is limited in the legislature because it does not have more than half of the seats, according to Taiwan's system, after Lai Ching-te takes office on 20 May, as the leader of the Taiwan region, he can appoint a "premier" to preside over administrative work. However, every bill and budget of the "Executive Yuan" needs to be approved and approved by the legislature, including Taiwan's arms purchases.
Lai Qingde
In addition, Taiwan's legislature can file a motion of no confidence in the "Executive Yuan" and demand the dissolution of the "Executive Yuan." At the same time, it can also initiate an impeachment case against the criminal acts of the leaders of the Taiwan region. It can be said that the KMT's control of the legislature is equivalent to making Lai Qingde "lame" before he took office. After all, the budget and legislation are in the hands of the legislature, and if the Kuomintang does not agree, it will be very difficult for the Lai Ching-te authorities to do anything, and if you know that the DPP's favorite method of purchasing arms from the United States in exchange for paying "protection money" to the United States in exchange for US support will not be autonomous, and other means will only be more difficult.
What's more, in the Taiwan regional election four years ago, Han Kuo-yu, who was frantically smeared and attacked by the Democratic Progressive Party, was defeated in a mess, and now that Han Kuo-yu has successfully taken over the legislature, this will inevitably become the beginning of Lai Qingde's nightmare, and the previous setbacks and humiliation must be found to find a way to get back.
At present, shortly after Han Kuo-yu's victory, the KMT's former deputy leader candidate, Zhao Shaokang, has spoken out, saying that the legislature election demonstrates the unity of the KMT and is also a good start for cooperation with the opposition parties, and that the blue and white sides should continue to make persistent efforts to promote the five goals of the amendment.
They include jointly proposing and amending the constitutional regulations of the Taiwan region and the law on the election and recall of leaders in the Taiwan region, so that candidates must obtain more than half of the votes before they can be elected, otherwise a second round of voting will be held, and the majority will win; amend the budget law to strictly examine and approve the special budget; revise the regulations on the supervision of cross-strait cooperation to clarify cross-strait relations and specific exchange principles; and revise the law on the control of nuclear power generation equipment.
In particular, the revision of the law on the election and recall of leaders in the Taiwan region is even more unmistakably aimed at the Lai Ching-te authorities; after all, in the Taiwan regional election, Lai Ching-te received only 40 percent of the votes, less than half of the votes, and belongs to the leaders of the Taiwan region whose support rate is weak.
Finally, there are still more than 3 months before Lai Qingde takes office, and before he takes office, all parties have begun to increase restrictions and tighten the spell for him, and it is conceivable that after he takes office, he will face more things that will be difficult for him to handle, so the nightmare mentioned above is not a casual remark, but there is really a great possibility.