On August 19, Taiwan media including the United Daily reported that KO Wen-je, chairman of the Democratic Party of China, was caught in a storm of false declarations of political contributions. The latest poll released by the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation on the 19th found that 13.8 percent of respondents support the Democratic Party, down 2.2 percentage points from the previous survey.
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In response to the recent spate of accounting fraud by the Democratic People’s Party, the report said, the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation asked people in a poll about“The tendency of Taiwanese people to support the party-is there still a tomorrow for the Democratic Party?” Which political party do you personally support most, the Democratic Progressive Party, the Kuomintang, the popular party, the“Force of the times” and so on? The results showed that 13.8% of the respondents supported the BJP.
You said the finding sent an important message that the“Democratic Party is not dead”. As for why the DPJ fell only 2.2 percentage points after a major scandal? The most likely reason, he said, was that the incident took place around the time of the investigation and that Ko Wen-je himself or his inner circle had not been confirmed to be involved in corruption, and that most of his existing supporters had not given up on the popular party. Yau also said that only if Ko Wen-je or the DPJ made another major mistake in the short term would a large number of DPJ supporters run away.
According to a report by the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation, the number of people who have favorable views of the Democratic Party has dropped by 14.7 percent, those who dislike it by 11.3 percent and those who have no feelings by 3.8 percent, one percentage point represents 195,000 people. The popular party has lost nearly three million people and an additional 2.2 million people dislike it. This is due to the misreporting of political contributions and campaign funds and the mishandling of the overall crisis, directly.
Ko Wen-je is mired in false claims of political contributions, and the story continues to unfold. According to a report on August 14 in Taiwan’s China time electronic daily, Siele, the company that had undertaken the Democratic Party’s election campaign, said recently that it had not issued three invoices totaling NT $9.16 million, causing an uproar. In addition to the prosecution’s initiative to investigate, including former prosecutor Zhang Xihuai of Taiwan’s“High Prosecutor’s office” and Taipei City Councilor Zhong Xiaoping, etc. , who put forward denunciations, the current defendants include Ko Wen-je, his wife Peggy Chen, a close confidant of Li Wenzong, Li Wenjuan, head of Muko Public Relations, which was involved in Ko Wen-je’s capital inflow, and Chen Twan Moh, an accountant in KE’s team. On the 14th, prosecutors separately went to the office of Duanmu Zheng, Muke company and KO Wen-je office to obtain documents, vouchers and other data for comparison, and interview Duanmu Zheng and other relevant people to the case.
Taiwanese media said KO Wen-je was embroiled in a funding storm and faced the biggest test of his political career. Island public opinion analysis that this is the DPP authorities to avoid “Blue and white together” and hit KO Wen-je. Xiao xucen, chief executive of MA ying-jeou Foundation, said on the 13th that if Ko is seriously injured, it will greatly reduce the probability of cooperation between the blue and white parties in the 2026 and 2028 elections, and allow William Lai to reap the benefits, it is definitely not good news for the Kuomintang. On the 14th, Li Yanxiu, who is also the chairman of the KMT’s cultural and cultural heritage committee, said Xiao’s concerns were not unreasonable, but that Taiwan’s political changes were so fast that“It’s really hard to say now.”.