KMT’s win hides vulnerabilitiesBy Chen Wen-ching 陳文卿Saturday’s local elections were a setback for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), but it does not necessarily mean that the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) would be victorious in the 2024 presidential election. In the 2018 local elections, the KMT also claimed victory, but the DPP triumphed in 2020. Second, the KMT is facing a major threat from the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP). The TPP and Gou would affect the KMT’s plan, and Gou is unlikely to work with the KMT again, after how he was treated in the KMT’s most recent internal elections. Despite its terrible showing in the local elections, the DPP is still the governing party.

Source: Taipei Times November 27, 2022 17:16 UTC