Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-04
By: Poor Luis, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
The Tsai Ing-wen administration is on the brink of losing the popularity that gave it a total mandate to 
lead the country just a little more than 100 days after the transition of power. The new administration’s waning popular support, which has been reflected in its plummeting poll numbers, has disappointed the people who had high hopes that President Tsai, who leads a political party that commands an absolute majority in the Legislature, would build Taiwan into “a fair and just society.”
During the short period since the new administration took power, Taiwanese people have gone from “the stage of excessive expectation to hope to the stages of discontent, conflict and protest” as they gradually found that “the team’s political ideals professed during election were gone with the wind and campaign promises had gone unfulfilled.”
After the transition of power, besides having appointed several political officers who “tie their fate to Taiwan’s existence,” the new government has also kept promoting the previous administration’s important government officials to the posts of “important political affairs officers and staff members,” intertwining the new government’s structure with the old one and allowing the recurrence of the old problem of high-ranking officials shielding one another in wrongdoings. [FULL STORY]
