Taipei Times
Date: Jul 18, 2018
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Nearly 70 percent of Taiwanese support the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office’s
Taiwan NextGen Foundation director Wang Chih-sheng in Taipei yesterday presents the results of an opinion poll concerning the indictment of former president Ma Ying-jeou over the sale of the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) media company assets. Photo: Huang Yao-cheng, Taipei Times
decision to reopen a case and indict former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) on allegations of financial irregularities arising from the sale of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)-owned media outlets, a poll by the Taiwan NextGen Foundation showed yesterday.
The survey found that 67.7 percent of respondents supported the probe, while 23.4 percent opposed it, foundation director Wang Chih-sheng (王智盛) said.
According to the poll, 49.3 percent of respondents think Ma is guilty, while 39.3 percent believe in his innocence, Wang said. “However, the result is heavily influenced by people’s political affiliations, as a majority of those who think that Ma is guilty said they identify with the pan-green camp, and most of those who believe in his innocence are pan-blue camp supporters.”
During Ma’s first term as KMT chairman from 2005 to 2007, the party sold three media outlets — Central Motion Picture Corp, China Television Co and Broadcasting Corp of China. [FULL STORY]
