Taiwan's KMT ch6astises Foxconn tycoon for leaving the party

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/09/12
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — After Foxconn tycoon Terry Gou (郭台銘) announced he was leaving the Kuomintang (KMT) party today (Sept. 12), the party expressed its "deep regret" and said that it will deal with the violation of party discipline rules by its former member (Gou).

This morning, the tech tycoon's aide Tsai Chin-yu (蔡沁瑜) announced that he had decided to quit the KMT effective immediately. "The KMT puts party interests ahead of national interests, which goes completely against Mr. Gou’s original intention to return to the party," Tsai quoted Gou as saying.

Gou’s announcement came after a front-page advertisement was released in newspapers today calling for collaboration between Gou and the KMT presidential nominee Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜). The advertisement, which was placed by the KMT, included 31 signatures of senior party members, including former President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), former Vice Presidents Lien Chan (連戰) and Vincent Siew (蕭萬長), Wu Den-yih (吳敦義), the party chairman.

In response, the KMT said that terms used in Gou's statement, such as "pedantic" and "centuries-old Standing Committee" need to be discussed and are not in accordance with the facts. It also countered that the idiom "living in the Cao camp, but having one's heart in the Han camp" (人在曹營心在漢) used to describe the 31 party members who signed the statement was flawed.
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