Word: kmt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was never a chance that Taiwan's long-ruling Kuomintang would be defeated in national elections earlier this month. The suspense centered on whether the Democratic Progressive Party, in its maiden contest as a legal opposition, would even dent the KMT's armor. The results, announced last week, surprised many observers. D.P.P. candidates won 21 out of 101 available seats in the Legislative Yuan, enabling the party for the first time to sponsor new bills...
...overall vote for both legislative and local races, the D.P.P. captured 30% of the ballots and independent candidates took 11%. That left the KMT, despite its control of the broadcast media and its fat campaign coffers, with a 59% share, an all-time low. The D.P.P.'s strong showing underscored growing resentment toward the KMT's 40-year political monopoly on Taiwan...
...goal was to protest the new national-security legislation that, according to the opposition, will all but duplicate martial law prohibitions -- in short, old wine in a new bottle. In an effort to build a consensus inside as well as outside the KMT, Chiang has permitted extensive discussion of the proposed law in the Legislative Yuan, in which the KMT holds 287 of 321 seats. The hard-line KMT members oppose softening martial law until Peking renounces its intent to bring Taiwan into the fold of the People's Republic -- by force if necessary...
...opposition, by contrast, argues that the security legislation contradicts the constitution and its guarantees of freedoms of speech, assembly, belief and movement. As evidence, it notes that the new law will continue the current ban on travel and on any opposition to the KMT's claim of sovereignty over all of China. Says Frank Hsieh, a D.P.P. member and Taipei city councilman: "Our principle is that when martial law is abolished, we should return to a full constitutional system...
...Chiang family, Second Son Chiang Hsiao-wu, $ 40, a broadcasting executive, has suffered from being linked in the press, perhaps unfairly, with the Henry Liu affair. Besides, many in Taiwan are uncomfortable with the idea of a Chiang dynasty. For the moment, having survived the worst scandals in the KMT's 39-year rule of Taiwan, people are mostly hoping that the current Chiang remains in good health...