True happiness has a green face
By Paul Lin 林保華
One of the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) campaign slogans, “proven in government,” has been confirmed by a survey carried out by the Chinese--language magazine CommonWealth, which shows the DPP’s approval rating is higher than that of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) pretty much across the board. The electorate has shown they approve of what the DPP is doing, and the party is now rebounding.
In the campaign for the five special municipality elections, the DPP candidates have refused to be provoked by the KMT’s smear tactics, insisting instead on comparing their political competence with their KMT counterparts. This has President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who also acts as KMT chairman, panicking and running around campaigning like a man possessed. It looks like the DPP have struck the right chord.
Two weeks ago, the Taiwan Youth Anti-Communist Corps traveled to Kaohsiung and Tainan. The pan-green camp is in power in both these areas, testimony to the fact that its leaders are, indeed, “proven in government.” If they weren’t, the polls wouldn’t be showing the KMT trailing them.