CULTURE CRITICIZED: If Chiang Ching-kuo could see the way that ‘the KMT has turned its back on the public and lost its ideals he would be heartbroken,’ Gou said
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 13, 2019
By: Ann Maxon / Staff reporter
Hon Hai Precision Industry Co (鴻海精密) founder Terry Gou (郭台銘) yesterday resigned from the
Yonglin Foundation deputy chief executive Evelyn Tsai holds Hon Hai Precision Industry Co founder Terry Gou’s Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) honorary certificate, party membership card and letter announcing his resignation from the party in Taipei’s Zhongzheng District yesterday.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
Gou said in a statement that quitting the party was not an easy decision.
While he feels sad about leaving the party, “reason tells me I am doing the right thing, something that will significantly change the fate of the Republic of China [ROC],” he said. “If former president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國) could see the way the KMT has turned its back on the public and forgotten its ideals he would be heartbroken.”
The KMT should not exist just to oppose the Democratic Progressive Party, or to promote its members’ personal interests or to trade favors, he said. [FULL STORY]
