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NPP nominates political novices

Taipei Times

Hung Tzu-yung, second left, and Chthonic lead vocalist Freddy Lim, second right, formally announce their candidacies representing the New Power Party yesterday morning in Taipei.
Photo: Lin Cheng-kung, Taipei Times

The New Power Party (NPP) yesterday kept to its promise to bring fresh faces to next year’s legislative elections by adding two more political newcomers to its list of candidates — Freddy Lim (林昶佐) and Hung Tzu-yung (洪慈庸).

President maintains his run of strikeouts

James Wang 王景弘

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) is like a junior-league baseball player waving his bat around in an adult game. Although he is “out” after three strikes, he still clings to the bat, while accusing the umpire of being unfair. Such antics are not very presidential.

To be more precise, Ma has earned at least six strikes in recent innings.

KMT inexorably slides into oblivion

Shyu-tu Lee 李學圖

With the defeats the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) suffered in the nine-in-one elections last year, a series of events — including a legislator’s withdrawal and resignations of high-level officials — have challenged the party’s stability. Do these events signify anything?

On Jan. 27, KMT Legislator Hsu Hsin-ying (徐欣瑩) announced her withdrawal from the party. Although denying her resignation was connected to the election results, she said in a statement that she had “joined the KMT to realize promises made to the electorate, and the decision to leave the party is no different.”

‘Bromances’ unable to paper over KMT cracks

Chin Heng-wei 金恆煒

Former National Security Council secretary-general King Pu-tsung (金溥聰) and Tainan City Council Speaker Lee Chuan-chiao (李全教) had nothing to do with each other in the past, but since the nine-in-one elections in November last year, King has resigned and Lee has been arrested. Both incidents were dramatic and the fortunes of the two have strong political implications.

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