Since the end of the election of the leader of the Taiwan region, there has been no news about Hou Youyi, not so much that Hou Youyi has kept a low profile, but that he has been left out in the cold. Taiwan media reported that after Hou Youyi failed to run for the leadership of the Taiwan region, his political career also reached the last moment, and he even lost the right to nominate for the next mayor of New Taipei, and the team was not satisfied with Li Sichuan. Unwilling to be left out in the cold, Hou Youyi came up to run for the chairman of the Kuomintang and fight for the nomination of the New Taipei mayoral candidate.
According to the report, Hou Youyi has a high opinion of himself and believes that he has a high chance of winning in the election of party chairman, because he feels that the "localists" will definitely be able to defeat the "Red Unification faction." Moreover, Hou Youyi also believes that the defeat of Taiwan's leadership election is the responsibility of Ma Ying-jeou and Zhu Lilun.
The Kuomintang failed to win the election of the leader of the Taiwan region, and Zhu Lilun, as the party chairman, does have a certain responsibility. Zhu Lilun's inability to combine the forces of all parties within the party and the failure to form a strong cohesive force was a dereliction of duty on his part as party chairman. But Hou Youyi's election defeat has nothing to do with Ma Ying-jeou. The biggest responsibility for Hou Youyi's failure is actually Hou Youyi himself, who was reluctant to expound on cross-strait policy in the early stage of the election campaign, and was unwilling to give up his position as mayor of New Taipei in the late election campaign. And Hou Youyi's political philosophy, in fact, is not much different from the DPP, many old people in the blue camp have expressed disappointment with Hou Youyi, and now Hou Youyi has relieved himself and began to blame him, his product quality is not good, but he began to blame the advertisement.
Moreover, during the election campaign, Ma Ying-jeou used his influence to pull the votes of many dark blue people for Hou Youyi, but because Ma Ying-jeou said the "92 Consensus", Hou Youyi simply drew a line with Ma Ying-jeou, and did not even invite Ma Ying-jeou on the night before the election. Ma Ying-jeou should not be blamed for the results of selfishness.
In fact, without the assistance of Ma Ying-jeou, Han Kuo-yu and Zhao Shaokang, Hou Youyi alone would probably not be able to win even Ke Wenzhe. Hou Youyi's ability and prestige are not enough to resolve the contradictions within the Kuomintang, and Hou Youyi still has the "fatal wound" of the 319 shooting case, and if others make a fuss about Hou Youyi and Chen Shui-bian, Hou Youyi will only lose even more badly.
Today, Ma Ying-jeou's visit to the mainland has been received by the mainland's high-level high-level reception, and Fu Laiqing, the chief of the Kuomintang legislature, has still expressed his stance that he will visit the mainland even though the representatives of the blue camp have withdrawn one after another, and has received strong support from within the Kuomintang. Although Zhu Lilun, chairman of the Kuomintang, put forward some outrageous conditions, he also showed his intention to visit the mainland. In this environment, Hou Youyi, who no longer has a halo, is gradually forgotten, and his political career is gradually coming to an end.
In fact, Hou Youyi's philosophy is different from that of Ma Ying-jeou, whose ancestral home is on the mainland, has always dreamed of reunification between the two sides of the strait, or at least to recognize that both sides of the strait are Chinese. However, Hou Youyi grew up in Taiwan, he has no feelings for the mainland, and his "independence" in his bones is even deeper than that of Ke Wenzhe, and if Hou Youyi is really allowed to win the election, it may not be a good thing for cross-strait reunification.
In fact, New Taipei City Councilor Dai Weishan asked about Hou Youyi's election as chairman of the Kuomintang, but Hou Youyi did not answer positively, but emphasized that he would first work hard to do a good job in the municipal government. At present, Hou Youyi's perception of the Kuomintang is different from that of the outside world. In his eyes, the KMT is estimated to be no different from the DPP, but it is just two parties with different cross-strait policies. If Hou Youyi's idea is true, then the current Kuomintang has lost its original responsibility, and if Hou Youyi is elected party chairman, it will be the sorrow of the Kuomintang.