Chen Shui-bian and Ma Ying-jeou were unable to shake off their image
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/09/23
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The negative image of Taiwan’s presidents, in particular of
President Tsai is peaceful, cool-headed and less like a DPP president, veteran politician Chiou I-jen said Saturday. (By Central News Agency)
Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), influenced the election results of their successors, former National Security Council Secretary-General Chiou I-jen (邱義仁) said Saturday.
He was speaking at the start of a two-day seminar about Taiwan’s democracy and its direct presidential elections, which started in 1996.
The corruption scandals surrounding Chen by the end of his final and second term in 2008 were perceived as negative by a majority in society, which meant that no matter how his Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) candidate in that year’s presidential election, Frank Hsieh (謝長廷), adapted his strategy, he was unable to shake off Chen’s influence, Chiou said.
A similar phenomenon occurred in the 2016 presidential election, when Ma’s image of ineptitude contributed to the crushing defeat of his Kuomintang’s (KMT) presidential candidate, Eric Liluan Chu (朱立倫), according to Chiou. [FULL STORY]
