The political party type in Taiwan/Carlos Pueblo

The political party type in Taiwan/Carlos Pueblo

Recently, a piece of news in Taipei was caught in my eyes on my daily viewing

of political talk shows on YouTube. The story is that a speak man of a Mayor

candidate of Democratic Progressive Party asks a fellow party councilwoman

who praises the incumbent Mayor who seeks the re-election as an independent

of his achievement during his tenure as the Mayor instead of helping her party’s

nominee. Even though Taiwan has been practiced the Western democratic

system ever since 1996, the Nation is still with an unique political operating

systems. Both DPP and KMT, the Chinese Nationalist, are not like the Democrat

and the Republican in the United States. Membership Identification and fee,

Party Rules, the Party Doctrine and the chains of command, etc. are clearly

defined and obeyed. The President of Taiwan must be a Chairperson of the

incumbent Party.

Taiwan has been under the Chinese Nationalist rule for more than 70 years. The

Chinese Nationalist is a Lenin’s Bolshevik type of political organization similar to

the Communist Party of the world. When I was helping to receive those funders

of DPP in Houston, Texas, I had had an opportunity to chat with one of the funder

Frank Hsieh, a philosopher, attorney, and a Mayor of a major city in Taiwan, and

the premier under the first DPP Presidency. He explained the need of such party

form during that time to solidify a humble opposition force against the might

KMT power. Some 30 years later, the Taiwanese voters can’t wait no more and

they are looking for a true democracy like the U.S. You can identify yourself by

your voting experience to the party and be affiliated to that party for the time being.

If you desire to get involved in political position, you must convince voters to vote

For you, of course, must go through primary and final voting in November of the

election year, very simple yet not easy. The Party cannot help you or guaranty you

anything.

A city like Houston with 1.7 million population, our ancestors set up a rule to prohibit

any political affiliation for every candidate to run for city positions such as the mayor

as well as the council person and I wonder if it is the reason that it is so boring, not

like City of Taipei or any kinds of election in Taiwan. American voters move on for

their life after the election. Some time they do regret for their neglecting of some

election.