The KMT and the DPP have taken to the airwaves to pitch their brand of politics and legislative reform as the solution to the nation's political chaos.
The DPP launched its first TV commercial for the Dec. 1 election yesterday. The spot features Chairman Frank Hsieh (
In the television spot, Hsieh appeals to the public for support. The DPP chairman notes that many of the party's legislators in the past -- including himself and Chen Shui-bian (
"The DPP has been a responsible party, which will continue to insist on realizing its political ideals," Hsieh says in the ad, while asking the public to help the DPP become the majority party in the legislature.
Hsu said the commercial aims to highlight the party's legislative reform goals -- including cutting the number of legislative seats by half and changing the electoral system into a single-member district, two-vote system.
The DPP will begin airing the commercial on Saturday.
The KMT, the largest of the opposition parties, launched two TV commercials earlier this month.
The most recent one includes footage of DPP members obstructing legislative functions when the party was in the opposition, in an effort to paint the DPP as a group of troublemakers.
The ad also attacks as groundless a DPP claim that the KMT is only interested in obstructing the legislature's work for its own gain.
The advertisement compares the average number of bills passed in each legislative session before and after the DPP took control of the presidency.
"The discrepancy is 40 bills on average," the ad's narrator states. "With the DPP in [the presidential office], the legislature has passed twice as many bills as it used to before it came to power."
KMT spokesman Justin Chou (周守訓) said the purpose of the television spot was to refute the DPP's claim that the opposition is responsible for chaos in the legislature.
"The add aims explicitly to refute the DPP's argument that legislative dysfunction is the cause of the country's economic woes," Chou said.
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