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.