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KMT argument not convincing

Taipei Times Editorial

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei chapter director Huang Lu Chin-ju (黃呂錦茹) on Friday last week was detained and held incommunicado for allegedly agreeing to or instructing the use of forged signatures to recall Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators.

The KMT, supported by the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), on Saturday held a large rally in front of the Presidential Office Building framing it as a fight against “anti-green communists and dictatorship,” and claiming that the DPP is carrying out political purges against opposition parties.

Shameless actions of the KMT and the TPP

Chu Meng-hsiang 朱孟庠

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), joined by the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), held a protest on Saturday on Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei. They were essentially standing for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is anxious about the mass recall campaign against KMT legislators.

President William Lai (賴清德) said that if the opposition parties truly wanted to fight dictatorship, they should do so in Tiananmen Square — and at the very least, refrain from groveling to Chinese officials during their visits to China, alluding to meetings between KMT members and Chinese authorities.

Now that China has been defined as a foreign hostile force, those who traveled to an enemy country to secretly meet with officials engaged in “united front” operations against Taiwan should face legal consequences.

Let Chiang topple the government

John Cheng

By now, most of Taiwan has heard Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an’s (蔣萬安) threats to initiate a vote of no confidence against the Cabinet. His rationale is that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)-led government’s investigation into alleged signature forgery in the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) recall campaign constitutes “political persecution.”

I sincerely hope he goes through with it.

The opposition currently holds a majority in the Legislative Yuan, so the initiation of a no-confidence motion and its passage should be entirely within reach. If Chiang truly believes that the government is overreaching, abusing its power and targeting political opponents — then this is his moment. He has the numbers. He has the platform. So let him.

The dead cannot vote, but the living can

Gahon Chiang 江佳紘

A series of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)-led recall efforts have come under fire following revelations of widespread forgery in the signature-gathering process. The most staggering case involves 1,923 forged signatures attributed to deceased people. On average, each campaign backed by the KMT contained more than 100 falsified entries — pointing not to isolated errors, but to a coordinated and systemic operation.

Despite the seriousness of the fraud, the KMT has neither apologized nor launched an internal investigation. One KMT legislator even dismissed the issue, remarking: “At most, it’s just forgery — is it really that serious?” That flippant response speaks volumes.

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