Since the secretary general of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been vacant since Hong Yaofu's resignation, DPP Chairman Zhuo Rongtai announced on the 13th that he would be replaced by Luo Wenjia, former "chairman of the guest committee" and current president of Buffalo Publishing House. Zhuo Rongtai described Luo Wenjia in Facebook: In this jianghu, people are talking about those long-lost martial arts, and there are names that have once been famous in the eight directions, and as soon as they are spoken, they represent an era.
Zhuo Rongtai (left) Luo Wenjia (right)
However, I am afraid that many people do not know the name "Luo Wenjia", let alone say anything threatening, because Luo Wenjia has been away from Taiwan's political arena for nearly ten years!
Born in 1966, Luo Wenjia graduated from the Department of Political Science of National Taiwan University. In 1988, Luo Wenjia was elected as the first president of the Taiwan University Student Union and entered the political arena, belonging to the "student movement generation". After graduation, Luo Wenjia worked as an assistant in Chen Shui-bian's "Legislator's Office" and was promoted to the director of the office in 1993, becoming an important right and left hand for Chen Shui-bian. After Chen Shui-bian was elected mayor of Taipei, Luo Wenjia served as the director and spokesman of the Taipei City Government Information Department, the youngest administrative officer in Taiwan at that time. In 2000, when the island's first political party rotation took place, Luo Wenjia also rose with the tide and served as the "vice chairman of the Cultural Construction Association" of Taiwan's administrative organ, was elected a "legislator" in 2001, and took over the "chairman of the guest committee" of Taiwan's administrative organ in 2004.
However, after Chen Shui-bian broke out in the "official jet fee case" during his second term of office, Luo Wenjia, who originated in the Bian Youth Army, began to criticize Chen Shui-bian, causing dissatisfaction among the "pro-independence faction." At this point, Luo Wenjia's "political luck" disappeared. In 2005, he resigned and failed to run for Taipei County Governor, and lost the DPP 'Legislator' primary election in 2007 and 2011.
After fading out of politics, Luo Wenjia returned to his hometown Taoyuan New House, during which time he ran a buffalo bookstore, planting rice, selling rice, selling vegetables, etc. In Luo Wenjia's words, he left politics for nine years, farmed for seven years, and his life was very simple, children, bookstores, and rice paddies were the main axis of life, he didn't read newspapers, he didn't watch TV, he didn't ask about politics, he didn't care about this land, "just another way, practice my ideas, weak but real light." It wasn't until chen qimai ran for mayor of Kaohsiung last year that Luo Wenjia came forward to assist in the operation in the late election.
After Zhuo Rongtai was elected chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, he was naturally very concerned about who would become the secretary general, after all, the secretary general was the most important right and left hand of the party chairman. Therefore, Zhuo Rongtai, who is determined to "revitalize the shimen", has set his sights on Luo Wenjia, who has worked together for a long time. After 3 hours of secret conversation at the Buffalo Bookstore, Luo Wenjia decided to accept the post of Secretary-General. Luo Wenjia said that his return to the political circle is not for Tsai Ing-wen or Zhuo Rongtai, but for the sake of the children, hoping that the children will still be able to breathe "free air" in the future. He thanked Zhuo Rongtai for inviting him, because Zhuo "knows what a difficult person I am" and chose to do so.
Luo Wenjia claimed that it was "difficult to engage", while Zhuo Rongtai said that he just liked Luo Wenjia to always adhere to the critical spirit of the DPP. He said that Luo Wenjia gave up the leisurely freehand of his idyllic hometown and left the comfort zone to enter the sweltering kitchen. From the leisurely mountains and forests back to the battlefield of swords and swords, "I believe that he is willing to stand up and prosper with our beloved DPP again after repeated thinking." ”
Luo Wenjia, who was born in the "student movement generation", was a political figure in the glorious period of the DPP, and he was good at propaganda, organization, elections, and especially political judgment was considered to be quite accurate. In 1998, when Chen Shui-bian ran for re-election as mayor of Taipei, Luo Wenjia came up with the idea of a "flat hat factory", and wearing a "flat hat" became a popular trend and was praised by the outside world as "the only thing that is not ugly in Taiwan's election history." Today, Luo Wenjia has returned to politics from the people and assumed the post of secretary general of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) that laid out the election, and his characteristics of being good at combat combined with Zhuo Rongtai's advantages in communication and coordination have made the 2020 "general election" a sensation before it was played.
What is the indicative significance of Luo Wenjia's reappearance to the DPP?
After becoming secretary general, can Luo Wenjia take the helm of the DPP after the defeat?
What kind of image can Luo Wenjia, who was cultivated by Chen Shui-bian, regain for the DPP?
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