DPP Newsletter Nov2010

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NOVEMBER 2010

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The DPP held a Nov. 27th press conference after

the election results of the five-city mayor elec-

tions were announced. The press conference

was hosted by DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen, ac-

companied by Secretary General Wu Nai-ren

and DPP officials.

Below are her comments:

“On behalf of the DPP, I would like to thank

all the participants and our supporters in this

election, as well as thank all the rest of the DPP

party members. The results of this election

were not as we hoped, but we humbly accept

them.“I would like to congratulate Mayor Chen

Chu, Mayor Lai Ching-teh and all the winning

city councilors, exhorting them to exert all their

efforts in uplifting city governance and bring-

ing a better livelihood for the city residents. I

would also like to express our deepest gratitude

to candidates Su Tseng-chang and Su Chia-

chuan for bravely shouldering responsibility,

achieving better overall DPP voter support and

Big-5 Elections: DPPgarners two seats,surpassing more than 50% support rate overall

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seats for our city councilors and

strengthening our basic power dur-

ing this hardest period for the DPP.

During their election process, they

showed true democratic style and

values, and it can be said to be a

glorious defeat.

“I would also like to appeal to

our supporters to accept the results

in this election. We can understand

everyone’s disappointment, but we

can’t afford to be discouraged. We

must see this result as a challenge

and once again a test for the DPP.

In this election, the DPP received

more than 50% of the votes cast.

Adding the results of the last 3-in-1

elections, the amount of votes re-

ceived throughout the election ar-

eas of Taiwan is comparable with

the KMT. Additionally, the DPP

received a great increase in the

number of city councilors. This re-

sult is an achievement of our col-

lective efforts. Therfore, do not be-

lieve that this is the end and every-

one should not lose faith. The DPP

will continue to fight on.

“The DPP this time remained

rational and pragmatic in develop-



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Big-5 Elections Taipei: “let’s continue exceeding ourselves”

Nov. 27 Statement by Su Tseng-chang

Dear fellow city residents, dear friends, the results

of this election have been announced, and facing itcalmly, I respect the choices of our city resident

and at the same time, I congratulate my opponent. I

would like to especially thank our fellow staff

members for working arduously day and night. I

would also like to thank the support of all the peo-

ple. However, the results did not meet everyone’s

expectations and did not meet everyone’s inten-

tions, and for this I am very sorry. Since the day I

announced my candidacy, I persisted in having dis-

cussions with the city residents and not use anyabusive, discrediting or negative language in the

campaign and going as far as injecting a new type

of campaigning method. Even though the result is

not as we expected, I believe that one day, this will

become a model as well as a value trend, and just

only we need to continue persisting. I do not have

any regrets, and I invite everyone not to feel dis-

couraged. As long as our direction was right and

our steps continue forward, everyone will gradu-

ally accept the right choices.

I would like to thank everyone for their support

and for their advice, for giving me that many op-

portunities to learn, and I will continue to exert allmy efforts. At the same time, I would also like to

give my blessings to Mayor Hao. I hope that Taipei

City makes even greater progress and Taiwan be-

comes even better. I would also like to make an

appeal to all our friends to continue persisting for

democracy and for Taiwan. We must continue cher-

ishing the change we believe in, we must progress

and become even more exceeding individuals. We

must definitely work harder, especially when I see

so many young people and so many head of house-holds and so much warmth. I will need even more

advice and support in the future. I will continue

using the dialogue method to learn and work harder

together with everyone. I hope that we continue

exceeding ourselves, and tomorrow we will exceed

today. We definitely must continue persisting and

walking with our efforts towards the future. Here

today, we expect for a better tomorrow.



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Big-5 Elections Taichung: Su Chia -chuan promises to stay

In the evening of the first Greater Taichung elec-

tion, the DPP’s candidate for Greater Taichung Su

Chia-chuan made his concession speech after a

loss of a small margin. Su Chia-chuan expressed

his gratitude to all the supporters, and he also gave

his congratulations to KMT Mayor Jason Hu.

Su Chia-chuan gave his apologies for not win-

ning the election, saying that his efforts were not

sufficient and that he failed to live up to every-

one’s expectations. He also said that, nevertheless,he promises to continue staying in Greater Tai-

chung and continue to work hard with all the resi-

dents in creating a happy and bright future.

“I do not wish to find faults in this elections

loss,” said Su. “This loss was because my efforts

were insufficient, but I also wish to send my con-

gratulations to Mayor Hu. I hope that in the future

Mayor Hu protects the old communities in Greater

Taichung, and not to let it continue decline or let

the marginalization of the areas in former Tai-

chung County. I also wish that he may protect the

disadvantaged groups, let the younger generation

be able to afford housing and let the older genera-

tion receive plenty of protection.”

Su also said that since he arrived in Taichung

six months ago, he was able to visit 625 townships

oftentimes more than twice. He said he was grate-

ful to all the residents for their warmth and sup-

port, and for this reason, he said that he will estab-lish an office in Taichung City to continue servic-

ing the community. Su explained that he wished to

continue staying in Greater Taichung so that he

could get closer to the residents and work together

with them for the welfare of the area.

At Su’s concession speech during the evening

of the election, he was accompanied by his wife,

his campaign staff and managers of his campaign,

Frank Hsieh and Lin Chia-lung.

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Big-5 Elections: “Kaohsiung is the real winner”

Statement by Mayor-elect Chen Chu of Greater

Kaohsiung:

Even though there were different opinions in

this time’s mayoral election, I believe that repre-

senting the power of progress and change, I wasultimately victorious. In the past 12 years, we be-

lieved that the value of Kaohsiung in which we all

worked together toward would ultimately move

the people and obtain their confirmation.

Thank you, residents of Greater Kaohsiung, for

making a warm and fair decision. With the home-

land’s warmth, I am humbly grateful. With the

homeland’s expectations, I will definitely work

harder.

The greatest task that follows is working to-gether for the responsibilities that come with

combining city and county. The next task is also to

make Greater Kaohsiung become a competitive

and international city.

I once again promise that in the future, there

will be no difference between city and county or

division between city and townships. There will

only be what I have emphasized to be the com-

mon, glorious development highlighted by the

three words “high, high and equal”. This means,

equality in city resident’s wel-

fare, equality in the insuranceof civil servants and equality in

the progress and development

of cities and townships. I will

continue upholding the princi-

ples of “honesty, diligence and

love for our native land” so

that our residents “love living

in Kaohsiung”, joining hand-

in-hand in reaching a glorious

peak for our city.I would like to thank our

mighty residents. I would also

like to thank our campaign

team and the entire DPP as

well as the staff in the townships and city districts.

Your heart and efforts into this election have given

me profound meaning. I will always remember

this emotion, and this gives me the force to work

harder and move forward in the future.

I will make Greater Kaohsiung even better, andKaohsiung will make Taiwan even greater. The

results of this election is the beginning of our

unity. I will keep in mind the standpoints raised by

my opponents, Huang Chao-shun and Yang Chiu-

hsing. Also, I will immediately set into practice

my campaign promises. Together with our Greater

Kaohsiung residents, the future city government

will together safeguard our garden of livelihood

and beautiful Kaohsiung.

It is regretful though that the DPP wasn’t ableto achieve a breakthrough in the number of exist-

ing seats. However, our voting numbers showed

remarkable increases. I believe that the entire

party gave their all so that everyone continued to

give the DPP their warmth and care. Once again,

thank you everyone for continuing to cheer for

Kaohsiung.




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Big-5 Elections Tainan: 3 major goals achieved

After the DPP’s election win in Greater Tainan,

DPP Mayor-elect Lai Ching-teh appeared at hiscampaign headquarters to thank all the supporters

for placing trust in his capacity. Lai announced

that this victory in Greater Tainan for himself and

the party was an achievement of the major goals

set out for the election.

Lai said that the three goals were successfully

accomplished, which were: (1) win Greater

Tainan, rebuild Taiwan’s number one city, (2) in-

crease voter percentage in the Big-5 Elections,

achieve big win for Taiwan, (3) majority party incity council, support the mayor for Greater

Tainan’s reconstruction.

Besides winning the mayoral seat in Tainan, the

DPP also performed superbly in the number of

city councilor seats, capturing 27 seats and be-

coming the majority party in the city council.

DPP Mayor-elect Lai called together a press

conference with all the winning councilors, an-

nouncing that he will continue to speak with the

remaining independent councilors in order to form

a coalition to improve the quality of the city coun-

cil. He also said that he looked forward to see the

party caucus work together in the nomination of the city council’s speaker and deputy speaker. Lai

also said he welcomed the independent councilors

to join the DPP’s city council caucus, and he also

said that he hoped to play a role in welcoming

them to join the party if they chose to do so.

Executive Director Lin Jung-Shian delivered a

report on the result of this election. Among 57

seats, the DPP achieved 27 seats, holding 47.37%.

The KMT garnered 13 seats and independents 17

seats. Of the 34 candidates that ran for the DPP,the success rate was 79.41%. Comparing this elec-

tion result with previous elections of the past five

years, the DPP in Tainan County achieved 27.11%

and Tainan City 35.78%. Lin also reported that a

total of 13 districts in Greater Tainan supported

the DPP’s nominated candidates.




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...press conference

ing public policy for the livelihood of the peo-

ple and the disadvantaged. This showed a dif-

ferent image of the party and political culture

in Taiwan. For this reason, we feel extremely at

ease. We definitely believe that this is a right

choice, and we will continue to persist in our

ideals until the DPP gains sufficient trust from

the public.

“In the past two years, the DPP and its party

members have walked through a tumultuous

period of growth and setbacks. I know that in

the near future, we will face an even tougher battle, but with the same faith and courage, I

will continue to lead the DPP, firmly marching

forward. Thank you!”

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Chair Tsai Ing-wen highlights DPP’s future after Big-5Elections

Remarks by DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen on Nov.

30 with members of the foreign media:

In this election, contrary to our expectations

and pre-election poll analysis, we did not win

more mayoral seats as we had hoped. We se-

cured the two southern cities with slight victo-

ries, but we were not able to expand our gov-

erning presence to the northern cities. In total

vote count, however, we broke the record, and

surpassed the KMT for the first time in the ur-

ban areas, winning nearly 50% of the votes

against KMT’s 44%. We also made tremen-dous gain in the percentage of local city coun-

cils, where the number of DPP seats is also un-

precedented. And the chart is there. We are

grateful to all the Taiwanese people who have

restored trust in the DPP and supported us this

time.

In various events of ours, we have noticed

that there were a lot more of young people and

women, who have traditionally kept a distance

from the DPP rallies. Their presence gives us

confidence that the DPP has captured the inter-

ests and support of new sectors of the public.

We also noticed a high level of passion in thesense we haven’t seen in years, and we hope

this positive image will sustain as we move

ahead.

We ran an election campaign with a focus

on public policy and successfully led the public

discourse, which compelled the KMT to fol-

low. For example, we introduced the discus-

sion on public social housing, government ini-

tiated urban renewal, and improving the deliv-

ery system for social benefits. These are ideasconsistent with the DPP’s ideology of social

justice, equal opportunity and assisting the dis-

advantaged sector of society. Our ideas re-

ceived more positive feedback and we will

continue to develop this policy, policies, as we

present our 10 year policy outlook.

I think since our defeat in 2008, the DPP has

been in the process of recovering. And we

have indeed managed to restore much confi-

dence in the




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...DPP international press briefing

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party, especially through our by-election victo-

ries, the rural 3-in-1 elections last December

and both the gains last weekend. We must con-

solidate these gains and continue to strive for

more support from our people as we face the

next electoral challenges of the legislative and

presidential elections of 2012.

Throughout my leadership of the DPP, we

have put tremendous efforts into rebuilding our

party’s credibility by presenting practical pol-

icy or discourse in hopes of surpassing the tra-

ditional blue-green divide and confrontational

politics. We believe this is a correct path of

which we will continue to strive. And in the

coming months, we will continue to present

our policy guidelines and ten year outlook for

the future. We must further articulate to the

Taiwanese people where we see the challenges

for our country in the next ten years, and how

we expect to cope with these internal and ex-

ternal challenges. We have already presented

chapters for public discussion on ethnic rela-

tions, agriculture, gender issues and education.

And we will continue to present our views in

other important issue areas that will affect our

country’s future.

We must continue to consolidate the

strength of our party in both public image and

trust on the one hand, and the other grassroots

organizational base on the other. At the sametime, we have been very successful in rebuild-

ing the party’s financial structure by small in-

dividual donations so that we can sustain the

party’s health, financial health, on the long-run,

without relying on business donations.

The unprecedented number of city council-

ors elected this time is an important inroads in

grassroots politics that will provide a founda-

tion for future national elections.

Now, cross strait policies. I know that in-ternational community is very interested in

how we proceed with our foreign policy and in

particular, how we deal with China. How we

face the challenges of a rising China that has an

overwhelming economic, political and security

impact on Taiwan, will be an important task of

the party in the coming years. There are a

number of things that we will be doing. First,

our doors continue to be open to dialogue as

long as the Chinese do not set political precon-

ditions. Over the past five months we have

already welcomed substantial number of Chi-

nese visitors to our headquarters, and we will

continue to welcome those who are genuinely

interested to understanding. We have also in-

vited Chinese democracy activists and liberal-

minded analysts to observe our election cam-

paigns to help them gain a deeper understand-

ing of our views and Taiwanese sentiments.

We have an ongoing project of consolidating

views in the party to formulate the China and

national security chapters in the ten year policy

guideline to be presented sometime next

spring.

We will establish a think tank research cen-

ter in the party to strengthen our analytical and

quality capacity to deal with cross strait devel-

opments as well as foreign development. Al-

ternatively, we recognize the need to establish

a peaceful and stable framework for interacting

with China. In fact, there is a large sector of

our society that is not comfortable with thepace in the current government’s pro-China

inclinations. We must present ourselves to be a

trustworthy alternative that is capable of pre-

serving Taiwan’s dignity, security and prosper-

ity.

I have reiterated many times that in con-

ducting external politics, we must bear in mind

that the need to maintain balance, transparency,

and respect for the democratic due process

here.



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DPP statement concerning election shooting incident

DEMOCRACY & PROGRESS

PUBLISHED BY:

Department of InternationalAff airs DemocraticProgressive Party

9F, No. 30, Pei-Ping EastRoad, Taipei, Taiwan

Tel: 886-2-2392-9989 ext. 306

Fax: 886-2-2393-0342

Email: [email protected]

Website:

http://www.dpp.org.tw

DIRECTOR:

Bikhim Hsiao

DEPUTY DIRECTORS:

Hsieh Huai-hui

Tsai Meng -chun

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:

Michael J. Fonte

EDITOR:

Ping -Ya Hsu

Most of us in the DPP are disappointed in the outcome in part

due to the unexpected turn of events prior to the election,

which overturned poll predictions and previous analyses.

There was the unfortunate shooting incident, which dominated

the media throughout the voting date with KMT-exaggerated

interpretations and politicization.

The facts and motivation of the shooting were not present in

full in the immediate aftermath, leaving much room for politi-cization and manipulation in the media.

We do not want to see this incident evolving into a source of

confrontation in our society, and we have expressed our con-

dolences to the victims of the shooting.

However, at the same time our supporters demand a thorough

and transparent investigation, and therefore DPP Chair Tsai-

Ing-wen has instructed the DPP’s party caucus in the legisla-

ture to act in accordance with the democratic and legal proc-ess, to oversee the government in pushing for a complete in-

vestigation and disclosure of the truth as soon as possible.

But more importantly, the shooting illustrates that there re-

main vulnerabilities in Taiwan’s democracy. More work re-

mains to be done to strengthen public confidence in our de-

mocracy so as not to allow incidents of violence and fear af-

fect election outcomes in the future.

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