Blue-white legislative cooperationBy Tzou Jiing-wen 鄒景雯Negotiations over electoral cooperation between the “blue” Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the “white” Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) are ongoing, but is “blue-white cooperation” a real issue or a bogus one? Ko said that “blue-white cooperation” was not about who gets what powerful position, and that no one had asked him to discuss it. The much-vaunted “blue-white cooperation” has come to the forefront, as indicated by a series of three meetings. Only at the inter-party consultation between Chu and Ko, where the presidential election was not the main focus, did the desire to win the maximum number of legislative seats emerge as a clear consensus between the two party chairmen. If the two parties can really maximize their shares of legislative seats, it would mean that successful cooperation between Ko and Chu could result in the formation of the largest political force after the election.
