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...itself. It has jeopardized its image in the weeks following the March 20 presidential election by engaging in a divisive campaign to overturn the election result, which saw Lien lose by just 29,518 votes out of nearly 13 million. Last week, the face-off between the KMT and Chen's government remained at an angry impasse. The KMT and its chief "Pan-Blue" alliance partner, the People First Party (PFP), have petitioned the courts for a recount and squabbled with Chen and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) over the procedure. The two sides also remain deadlocked over the shooting...
...days after losing Taiwan's presidential election, defeated candidate Lien Chan convened leaders of his Kuomintang (KMT) party to figure out what had gone wrong. He demanded details about the assassination attempt that won a sympathy vote for incumbent Chen Shui-bian and called for an analysis of the party's options for requesting a recount. But most of all, he wanted to know why one of Taiwan's poorest counties, which had never failed to vote KMT, had turned against the party. The defectors of Yunlin helped Chen to his paper-thin victory margin and "stripped me of everything...
...overcome deep factional divides. Failure will probably cost Pan-Blue its majority in the legislature during elections this December?its last toehold on power. Success will require winning a tough two-front war. On one side are Taiwanese voters, like those in Yunlin, who are now drawn to Chen and his "Taiwan first" message. On the other are old-line supporters wary of pandering to independence-minded Taiwanese. At the same time, the KMT must make room for ambitious Young Turks anxious to climb the ranks, negotiate a new equilibrium within its Pan-Blue alliance and reverse a plunge...
...over alienated voters from the KMT's bentuhua side who are disturbed by their party's histrionic reaction to the election. "The biggest beneficiary of the election fiasco will be the DPP," predicts Tuan Yi-kang, a DPP legislator and strategist. Control of the legislature would grant Chen a freer hand to rewrite the constitution?something Beijing fears is an irreversible step toward formal independence...
...prevent such a defeat, the KMT will emphasize its recent transformation. Following its shocking loss to Chen in 2000, the party revamped its Leninist-style structure and replaced it with a system of primary elections for candidates and intraparty elections for senior party positions. It barred candidates tainted by accusations of corruption or who amassed "black-gold" fortunes through Mafia connections. Most important, it promoted a younger generation of stalwarts, especially three comers known by their collective nickname Ma-Li-Chiang, or "strong horsepower": Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou, Taoyuan county magistrate Chu Li-lun and Taichung mayor Jason...