Annette Lu is a politician of the yesterday who's still sticking around past her given screen time.
The News Lens
Date: 2019/09/20
By: Brian Hioe
Annette Lu proves how many of yesterday’s revolutionaries have become today’s reactionaries in
Photo Credit: CNA
Though not currently holding any political position, Lu announced on Monday that she would run as the presidential candidate of the Formosa Alliance, a recently formed third party primarily consisting of elderly pro-independence hardliners.
Although some might dismiss Lu as not having any actual impact on the 2020 presidential election, the race seems likely to be a close one, in which even a 1- or 2-percent difference in votes could lead to a KMT victory instead of a DPP one. While President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) now enjoys a clear lead in recent polls, past polling has shown Tsai neck and neck with Han Kuo-Yu (韓國瑜) in scenarios with multiple presidential candidates. A split vote could easily lead to a Han victory, like how a split pan-Blue vote led to Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) 2000 election victory.
Lu’s supporters would credit her career during the early Taiwanese democracy movement as a storied and remarkable one. She was a pioneering feminist and was one of the eight individuals arrested during the Kaohsiung Incident in 1979. Lu was sentenced to 12 years in prison and served almost six years in jail before being released. [FULL STORY]
