Regardless of what happens, the breakthroughs by both camps have greatly increased the room for politicians to act, and it has also created greater potential for change.
The only thing that we can know for certain is that both camps will gauge public opinion before making any adjustments. In this sense, the question of whether politics will become more radical or more centrist -- like in the 1990s -- will be decided by voters.
Wu Yu-shan is the director of the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica.
Translated by Lin Ya-ti and Perry Svensson
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