Taiwan’s opposition parties hit with lawsuit over failed joint election deal
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KMT party elder and former Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou investigated, along with the party’s chairman and presidential candidate plus TPP leader.

Lawfare is a way of bringing down a popular government and nullifying election results with either false or nitpicked legal accusations, that are then confirmed by a friendly judiciary system. Typically what happens when Latin American countries vote for a government the US doesn’t like. Or how the Moldovan puppet government is banning all opposition.

In this case, DPP alleged that the fact the Kuomintang and a third party were negotiating an alliance constitutes “bribing” as they were promising each other favours.

Such an alliance is needed in the first place because Taiwan’s voting system doesn’t require the winning government to have a majority. With the opposition split in two candidatures, the current government is still on course to be reelected next January with almost two thirds of the country voting for someone else.

  • Eat_Yo_Vegetables69
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    7 months ago

    Mainly because of the 92 consensus where both sides agree that they are one country with 2 different expressions, with the KMT side seeing it all as the ROC and the CPC considering it all as the PRC. They at least agreed on shared lineage and not like the DPP which is trying to rewrite history and aligning even closer to the Japanese and US.