SOUL-SEARCHING MUST BEGIN, NOT FINGER-POINTING: DPP NEW TIDE FACTION
ROC Central News Agency
2005-12-03 22:32:59
Taipei, Dec. 3 (CNA) The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) should begin soul-searching instead of blaming individual leaders such as President Chen Shui-bian or DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang for the party's dismal showing in local elections, a party stalwart said Saturday.
Tuan Yi-kang, convener of the DPP's New Tide Faction, said all party members must honestly face the party's poor election results in order to regain the confidence of the people.
The party won only six cities and counties, all in southern Taiwan, in a race for 23 local government seats, while the major opposition Kuomintang (KMT) won 14, including the largest, Taipei County, and the "most symbolic," Chiayi City.
Tuan attributed the DPP's failure to the "overall environment and the new election system of combining all three elections in a day of voting" -- the elections of city, county and town government heads as well as council members -- that he said are not to the advantage of the party.
He also blamed the party's election strategists for failing to give the public a new vision.
He refused to comment on DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang's resignation in the wake of the elections fiasco.
(By S.C. Chang)
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