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The KMT Returns to Power - Elections in Taiwan, 2008-2012 (Hardcover)
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The KMT Returns to Power - Elections in Taiwan, 2008-2012 (Hardcover)
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In this book the author examines how the Nationalist Party
(Kuomintang or KMT) returned to govern Taiwan after ruling for more
than half a century but losing power in 2000 when the opposition
Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) Chen Shui-bian won the
presidency and was reelected in 2004. Out of power and playing the
role of opposition party the KMT won legislative and executive
elections in 2008. It subsequently won mayoral elections in 2010
and elections again to the legislative and executive branches of
government in 2012. The KMT returned to power by resolving internal
differences between older and younger factions in the party,
maintaining an alliance with friendly parties and preventing
philosophical differences from mattering. It was helped by the
debilitating corruption of the DPP's President Chen and good
campaigning. In assessing these KMT election victories the author
concludes that the KMT will probably remain the ruling party for
some time. Its reputation for good economic management,
democratization, honesty and good leaders seen against the DPP's
still damaged reputation due to Chen's corruption, internal
disagreements, its perorocial base, its inability to deal with
China and the United States inhibit it from being able to return to
power.
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