The People's Party responded to the Kuomintang's accusation of the loss of young votes: the youth vote is a report card of political performance
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- KMT Chairman Zheng Liwen said that the DPP lost 3 million young votes in the later period of its administration, and most of them switched to the People's Party.
- People's Party spokesperson Zhang Tong responded that young votes are a report card of a party's performance and are not affected by factions.
- Instead, they depend on who implements reforms and achieves results, stressing that the basis of support for the People's Party is based on ideas and policy practices.
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KMT Chairman Zheng Liwen. (File photo)
During her visit to the United States, KMT Chairman Cheng Lai-wen mentioned that the DPP lost 3 million young votes in the last four years of Tsai Ing-wen’s administration, and most of them went to the People’s Party, declaring that the KMT will continue to communicate with young voters without reservation. Although the challenges are huge, she is full of confidence in the elections in 2026 and 2028. In response, the People's Party said today that young people are not influenced by traditional local factions and that the youth vote is "a report card on the party's political performance" rather than anyone's base.
People's Party spokesperson Zhang Tong said that youth votes should not be regarded as the basis of any political party, but a report card of the party's political performance. Young voters are not affected by traditional local organizational factions. Therefore, each politician will be judged by who implements reforms, who is willing to take responsibility, and who has achieved actual results.
Zhang Tong believes that past elections have proven that many young voters are willing to break through the traditional party framework and support a rational and pragmatic option that pays more attention to science and data governance. Therefore, there is no so-called problem of who will "snatch" young votes, because the support base of the Taiwan People's Party has always been based on ideas and policy practices.
"Any political party that is willing to more actively dialogue with young people, we are optimistic about its success." Zhang Tong emphasized that the Taiwan People's Party will continue to accumulate practical achievements step by step, including promoting residential justice, judicial reform, and fiscal discipline in the Legislative Yuan caucus, and local councilors supervising municipal administration and solving people's livelihood issues. Voters trust that the strong supervision and implementation of policies will continue to be consistent in the future, allowing the middle and young voters who are looking forward to a new culture in Taiwanese politics to see that politics should not be reduced to propaganda, rhetoric, and mud wars, but should be able to solve problems pragmatically and efficiently and respond to the people's expectations for change.
