Formosa News
Date: 2018/07/15

Four months ahead of the year-end municipal elections, the DPP’s national party congress was brimming with campaign fever as President Tsai Ing-wen opened fire on the opposition today. She accused the KMT of seven major offenses, including embracing nuclear power and making Taiwan over-reliant on the Chinese market. She also justified her reform efforts, saying the current hardship the society is experiencing is the cross it has to bear for the benefit of the nation’s future.

When 20 DPP candidates running in the year-end town and county elections entered the auditorium, all the seated party delegates cheered.

This year, the DPP’s national party congress had a theme of “reform and promotion of the next generation.” President Tsai Ing-wen stressed her reforms over the past more than two years had been painful and criticisms of them were inevitable.     [FULL  STORY]