Some members of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) have suggested that the party relocate its power center out of the capital, and that to do so, the party should move its headquarters from Taipei to Taichung.
The KMT has to stop seeing the world from Taipei, the KMT’s Taichung City Council caucus said yesterday, while calling for party reforms.
The Republic of China’s oldest political party suffered its biggest defeat since 1949, when it lost the Chinese Civil War and was forced to relocate to Taiwan, in Saturday’s presidential and legislative elections.
Not only did the KMT lose the presidency, but also its long-held legislative majority.
Caucus whip Yang Cheng-chung (楊正中) said the loss was not unexpected because it was the result of the KMT failing to listen to the public for too long.
The party has kept its distance from the nation’s younger generation, therefore it does not know their concerns, Yang said, calling the party “outdated, bureaucratic and incompetent.”
“The KMT needs to listen to the voices of the public,” Yang said.
With the support of KMT legislators Johnny Chiang (江啟臣) and Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恆), both elected from Taichung, the caucus proposed that the party relocate to Taichung.
Both Chiang and Yen retained their legislative seats.
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