Word: dpp
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...corruption and forgery charges on Nov. 3, opponents of President Chen Shui-bian lit fireworks and popped champagne corks, sure that his resignation would soon follow. That celebration is now looking premature. Over the past three weeks Chen has shored up support among members of his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP); last Friday, DPP lawmakers thwarted - for the third time - a recall motion that would have triggered a national referendum on Chen's ouster...
...Chen's future, though, may be decided not by his opponents but by his supporters. His Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) stood by him during previous recall efforts, preventing the KMT and its allies from securing the legislative support needed to put a referendum to Taiwan's voters. "Up to now," says Shelley Rigger, a Taiwan expert at Davidson College in North Carolina, DPP members "have said if the choice is between supporting Chen or supporting our political enemies, we go with Chen." But now their frustration "could reach the tipping point." If only 12 of the legislature's 85 DPP...
...Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian is seeing red these days, he can blame Shih Ming-teh. Shih was once chairman of Chen's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). But for weeks now he has been leading crimson-clad demonstrators in protest to force the President to resign over corruption allegations against him, his aides and his relatives (they deny any wrongdoing). Shih, 65, spoke with Time's Natalie Tso about Chen, Taiwan's democracy, and his "red revolution...
...Chen was one of the lawyers who defended you democracy activists in 1979 after clashes between the opposition and the police. Why turn against him? I struggled [with this] for a long time. It's tough for me emotionally. But, out of friendship, a lot of people in the DPP are afraid to stand on the right side...
...Kuomintang (KMT), which the DPP ousted, also had corruption issues. The DPP can't say: "Since the KMT did it, why can't I?" That's why the people took power from the KMT. If we don't make Chen resign, people will say, "He could do it, so why can't I?" [Then] we will never have clean politics...