Also, most of the 30 percent or so middle-ground voters tend to be moving toward the KMT and PFP. Under these circumstances, the new political party will need extraordinarily savvy strategies to ensure that it will be able to develop its own voter base without encroaching on the DPP's.
I hope that the new party will take heed of the present situation in party politics and come up with strategies beyond any narrow "localization" ideology capable of receiving the kind of breakthroughs necessary to end the current political stalemate.
Chiu Hei-yuan is a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica.
Translated by Francis Huang
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