Jin Pucong, a friend and important aide of former President Ma Ying-jeou, served as the CEO of Hou Youyi's campaign during the 2024 presidential election. He was dissatisfied with former legislators Cai Zhengyuan, Qiu Yi and others for accusing him of manipulating and destroying the "Blue and White Alliance" and infringing on his reputation. He filed a civil lawsuit against Cai Zhengyuan, Qiu Yi, Kuomintang Vice Chairman Xiao Xucen and senior media person Wang Shangzhi, seeking compensation of 1 million yuan each. The Taipei District Court issued a verdict today, holding that Qiu Yi accused Jin of releasing a fake People's Party security list without reasonable verification, which constituted infringement. It ruled that Qiu Yi should compensate Jin Puchong 200,000 yuan, and published the original judgment on Qiu's Facebook page for 7 days; Cai Zhengyuan and other three people were exempted from compensation. Can be appealed.
The whole case originated in October 2023. The Kuomintang and the People's Party considered "Blue and White" to form a presidential and vice-presidential candidate pairing. However, the two sides had differences over who would be the presidential candidate and how to produce the results. Jin Pucong, then CEO of Hou Youyi's campaign office, proposed an "open democratic primary" plan, but the White camp opposed it, and the decision ended without reaching a consensus. Qiu Yi, Cai Zhengyuan, Wang Shangzhi and others have made comments on the show or on social platforms. They believe that behind Kim Puchong's advice, there may be "American daddy" instructing him, with the intention of escorting DPP candidate Lai Qingde to be elected. Qiu Yi also said that it was Kim Puchong who instructed the public to reveal the People's Party's safe candidates for the gerrymandered legislators, including Zhu Lilun's father-in-law Gao Yuren.
Among them, Qiu Yi has repeatedly published articles pointing out that Jin Pucong is a "thug, ruffian, hooligan, very low-level and low", "he is basically malicious and wants to break the blue and white alliance", "Jin Xiaodao released a fake KMT's non-district legislators' safe list...it means that Jin has broken with Zhu Lilun", "Isn't Qin Hui just Jin Xiaodao? It's too obvious", "This is called eunuchs pretending to be queen mothers, and people who have no talent are called eunuchs, but they want to listen to politics behind the curtain." "Jin Xiaodao's approach is to escort and escort Lai Qingde and split the Kuomintang." "There may be an American dad behind the scenes who wants him to kill some so-called generals (referring to Zheng Liwen, Cai Zhengyuan, Qiu Yi, Luo Zhiqiang, Xu Qiaoxin, etc.), "He doesn't want Hou Youyi to win."
The judge reviewed the relevant remarks one by one and believed that "Jin Xiaodao's release of the fake KMT's safe list of non-district legislators... means that Jin has broken with Zhu Lilun." Based on the witness's testimony, the judge believed that the witness only told Qiu Yi that "it was possible" that Jin Pucong released the list. Jin Pucong was just one of the people insinuated by the media at the time. Therefore, the judge believed that Qiu Yi did not conduct other verifications and insisted that it was Jin who released the list. He failed to perform reasonable verification obligations, which constituted an infringement of reputation rights.
As for Qiu Yi's other comments, as well as the comments made by Cai Zhengyuan, Wang Shangzhi, and Xiao Xucen about Jin Pucong, the judge believed that they were all comments made in good faith on matters that were subject to public comment. Even though the words used would make Jin Pucong unhappy, they did not exceed the scope of reasonable comments and did not reach the level of damage to reputation, so the judgment was exempted from compensation. The entire case remains open to appeal.
