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KMT looks for the common touch

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) released its third TV spot in the presidential election campaign yesterday, featuring three citizens voicing dissatisfaction with the nation's unemployment rate, education reforms and hikes in National Health Insurance premiums.

By featuring ordinary citizens speaking about their everyday lives, the party hopes to strike a chord with the public.

The TV spot concludes with an appeal for the public "to use ballots to do away with the incompetent Democratic Progressive Party [DPP] administration."

Calling education reform "cluttered and full of confusion" and saying that hundreds of thousands of people are unemployed, KMT spokesman Justin Chou (周守訓) said, "The best way to solve all these problems in Taiwan is to use ballots to replace the incompetent DPP administration and president, who does not care about people's well-being."

"What people want at the moment is a stable income as well as a comprehensive and rational education and health system, but not a defensive referendum that would push Taiwan to the brink of war," Chou said,

He was referring to President Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) call on Saturday to hold a referendum on March 29 on yet-to-be-defined sovereignty issues.

The KMT dismissed Chen's plan as campaign rhetoric designed to provoke Beijing.

According to Chou, the new TV spot will be broadcast until Sunday, when the national campaign headquarters of the KMT-People First Party (PFP) alliance is formally established.

The blue camp's first TV campaign ad stressed the close connection between the people and the land, featuring Lien strolling at a historic site in Tainan.

The second TV ad ridiculed Chen's "one country on each side" remark, saying it meant "the DPP and corporations on one side and poor people on the other side."

The alliance plans to produce a total of 10 TV spots in the run up to the March election.

Meanwhile, Legislative Speaker and pan-blue campaign director Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) met for the first time yesterday with key officials to discuss the launch of the campaign headquarters on Sunday as well as a campaign rally at the CKS Memorial Hall that same day.
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