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BackKe Zhien cut off the box office poison of "Zheng, Fu and Weng". The Public Supervisory Alliance criticized ticket fraud: In the future, he will still be an obedient dog.
Ke Zhien cut off the box office poison of "Zheng, Fu and Weng". The Public Supervisory Alliance criticized ticket fraud: In the future, he will still be an obedient dog.
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Ke Zhien cut off the box office poison of "Zheng, Fu and Weng". The Public Supervisory Alliance criticized ticket fraud: In the future, he will still be an obedient dog.

Zhang Honglin: If Ke Zhien, Jiang Qichen and others are unwilling to quit the party, they should not try to cut off from Zheng Liwen, Fu Kunqi, Weng Xiaoling

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  • In the countdown to the year-end election, KMT chairman Cheng Lai-wen, party chief convenor Fu Kunqi and legislator Weng Xiaoling are regarded as the "three major box-office poisons".
  • Even blue-camp candidates Ke Zhien and Jiang Qichen have openly distanced themselves from each other.
  • Zhang Honglin, CEO of the Gongdu League, criticized that KMT candidates cannot be separated from the party.

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Why It Matters

In the countdown to the year-end election, KMT chairman Cheng Lai-wen, party chief convenor Fu Kunqi and legislator Weng Xiaoling are regarded as the "three major box-office poisons". Even blue-camp candidates Ke Zhien and Jiang Qichen have openly distanced themselves from each other. Zhang Honglin, CEO of the Gongdu League, said in an interview that the Kuomintang and its candidates are one and cannot be separated.

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In the countdown to the end-of-year election, KMT Chairman Cheng Lai-wen, KMT league chief Fu Kunqi and legislator Weng Xiaoling are regarded as the "three major box office poisons". Even blue-camp candidates Ke Zhien and Jiang Qichen have openly distanced themselves from each other. Zhang Honglin, CEO of the Gongdu League, said in an interview today that the KMT and its candidates are one and cannot be separated. If they want to separate, they are deceiving the people who have not thought clearly. They want to tell everyone that they can become independent, but as long as they use the KMT membership, they will be controlled. If they really want to separate, they should quit the party and run for elections without party membership.

Kuomintang Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Ko Chi-en recently emphasized at a TV debate that if she is elected, Cheng Li-wen, Fu Kunqi, and Weng Xiaoling will not come to Kaohsiung. Kuomintang Taichung mayoral candidate Jiang Qichen clarified on the program that if she is elected as Taichung mayor, Fu Kunqi is rumored to be interested in competing for the position of vice president. Jiang said "this is a false issue" and is deliberately thrown out to interfere with the election and divide the KMT.

Zhang Honglin bluntly said that Ke Zhien is not a courageous political figure at all. Each political party has its own image and culture. If she believes that there are serious line issues within the party, which may even infringe on Taiwan's sovereignty, affect national security, or randomly delete and freeze the defense budget, the thing to do is to bravely stand up and express different opinions, rather than being silent on the stage.

Zhang Honglin continued to point out that candidates who just do not want Fu Kunqi and others to stand up, but acquiesce in everything the Kuomintang, the Kuomintang Chairman and the Kuomintang Youth League Committee are doing, such candidates have no courage, are timid, and will be even more weak in the face of greater pressure from China in the future.

In response to Ke Zhien's statement about whether they should be allowed to go to Kaohsiung in the future, Zhang Honglin criticized that it was not that they were not allowed to go, but that it was impossible not to allow them to go, because Zheng Liwen, Fu Kunqi, Weng Xiaoling and others have mastered the party machinery and the operation of the Legislative Yuan. Basically, local leaders will still be controlled by the party if they have to amend many laws in the future.

Zhang Honglin criticized that a person who dare not say anything now will still be an "obedient dog" in the future. Such a person who does not have the courage to express his opinions will not have the courage to help the people defend their due dignity and rights in the future. This incident shows the characteristics of a personality. These people are bullying good and afraid of evil, and dare not defend the value of freedom and democracy within the party.

He believes that now is not a time to examine whether the KMT candidates have invited Zheng Liwen and others to stand on the platform, or whether they will get close to them after being elected in the future. The point is that the KMT candidates cannot be completely outside the party. The party is still an election machine. In the past, everyone said that choosing people should not choose the party. The premise is that the party must be a normal political party. However, the Kuomintang is no longer a normal political party. It not only destroys the constitution and disrupts the government, but the party chairman Cheng Liwen is also pro-China and licks China.

Zhang Honglin emphasized that under this abnormal operation of the party chairman, the influence of the Kuomintang on individual politicians will definitely be greater, not less, in the future. If Ke Zhien really hates this political party so much, he should quit and run for office without party membership. If he still uses this party membership today, it means that they are still one and the same, so don't be deceived. This is inseparable.

What to Watch

AI outlook — possibilities, not facts

  • Ke Zhien and Jiang Qichen will not quit the party and will continue to run for office as members of the Kuomintang.

    Likely · Within days

Open Questions

  • Will Ke Zhien and Jiang Qichen eventually quit the party and run for office as independents?
  • Is Fu Kunqi really interested in competing for the position of deputy dean?
  • Will voters' negative evaluation of the "three box office poisons" affect the blue camp's election?

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