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From beginning to end: DPP presidential primary process
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In determining the suitable presi-
dential candidate for the DPP, a
primary process started with a se-
ries of internal debates in January,
where the DPP’s National Party
Congress ultimately passed a
resolution to use polling as the
main method for deciding the
primary winner.
During March, hopefuls to win
the DPP primary registered for
their candidacy. Each candidate
was required to personally attend
the registration with their DPP
membership cards and a NT5 mil-
lion registration fee. The candi-
dates that registered for the pri-
mary were Former Premier Su
Tseng-chang, DPP Chair Tsai Ing-
wen and Former DPP Chair Hsu
Hsing-liang.
Each candidate then set-out to
establish their campaign head-
quarters. DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen
took a leave from her duties as
party chair to run the primary
campaign. The primary campaign
strategy for candidates Tsai Ing-
wen and Su Tseng-chang con-
sisted of street visits, rallies, me-
dia interviews and online creation
of websites and social media
pages. Hsu Hsing-liang relied on
close friends’ gatherings and the
DPP-sponsored televised presen-
tations as a main method of cam-
paigning.
The DPP held four televised
presentations for each candidate
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to present their policy platforms. In each presenta-
tion, the topics discussed were focused on interna-
tional affairs, cross strait policy, domestic policy
and civic governance, highlighting the current prob-
lems on the wealth gap, environmental damage and
nuclear energy safety.
During the presentations, Su Tseng-chang called
for government policies that tackled the issues faced
today by the youth and elderly such as social secu-
rity and affordable housing, reconstruction and ex-
tensive land planning. In cross strait policy and in-
ternational affairs, Su stressed the importance of a
“realistic approach to international relations”, which
was to grasp opportunities presented worldwide in-
stead of focusing on one opportunity as the KMT’s
has done. He also stressed the importance on rely-
ing on the US-Japan alliance as well as strengthen-
ing our relationship with Asian countries.
As for Tsai Ing-wen, she stressed the importance
of entering a new era of leadership that could lead
Taiwan and its people to face the problems of the
future generation and to change. She laid out three
main points during the first televised presentation,
which were to protect Taiwan’s sovereignty and se-
curity, revive the economy to provide safety and
happiness for the people of Taiwan, and to unite so-
ciety in order to pursue fairness and justice. She
also laid out a policy of ending all reliance on nu-
clear energy by 2025 through the suspension of the
four nuclear power plants and finding ways to es-
tablish alternative sources of energy.
Alternatively, during the first televised presenta-
tion Hsu Hsing-liang emphasized the “bold open-
ing” of Chinese capital and tourists into Taiwan,
which he said would bring more investment and in-
crease employment. He also suggested a policy of
increasing tax on stock transactions for those profit-
ing in large scale, and as a person who grew up
from a farming family, he suggested more ways to
protect Taiwanese farmers and agriculture.
When it came down to the last days of campaign-
ing, Su Tseng-chang and Tsai Ing-wen held mass
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“During the primary process, we saw the per-
spectives and personalities of both Former Pre-
mier Su and Former Chair Hsu. Both of them are
indispensable for the DPP and in the future, we
will need to continue counting on their leader-
ship. In the shortest of time, I will personally en-
gage in asking for their assistance and thanking
them for their support.”
Tsai Ing-wen will be officially launched as the
2012 presidential candidate for the DPP on May
4.
Biography of Tsai Ing- wen
Tsai Ing-wen received her a degree in law from
the College of Law, National Taiwan University
in 1978 and her master’s degree in law from
Cornell University in the U.S. In 1984, she
earned her Ph.D. from U.K.’s London School of
Economics also with a degree in law.
In the 1990’s, Tsai Ing-wen participated as a
government negotiator for Taiwan’s accession to
the World Trade Organization (WTO). Her out-
standing performance led her to being recruited
to the National Security Council of Taiwan as a
national security advisor to Former President
Lee Teng-hui.Following the DPP election victory in 2000,
she became the government’s minister for China
Affairs in the government-body, the Mainland
Affairs Council. She joined the DPP as a party
member in 2004 and nominated as a legislator
at-large. In the following year, she became the
Vice Premier in Taiwan.
When the DPP was defeated in the 2008 elec-
tion, party members urged Tsai Ing-wen to carry
on the challenging task of re-building the party.She was elected as the first women leader of a
major political party in Taiwan. Under her lead-
ership, the DPP has been gaining momentum in
local elections since 2009.
In April 2011, she won the DPP’s presidential
primary and will represent the DPP in the up-
coming presidential election in January 2012.
She will become the first female presidential
contender in Taiwan.
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DPP Primaries: list of legislative candidates for districtrepresentation
Below is the list of legislative candidates for district representation. Only candidates for at-large and dif-
ficult areas will be announced by the Central Nomination Committee.
Kaohsiung City Pintung County Yunlin County Taichung City
Chiu Yi-Ying邱議瑩(incumbent)
Su Chen-Ching蘇震清(incumbent)
Liu Chien-Kuo劉建國(incumbent)
Tsai Chi-Chang蔡其昌
Chiu Chih-Wei邱志偉
Lee Shih-Ping李世斌
Chang Liao Wan-Chien張廖萬堅
Lin Dai-Hua林岱樺(incumbent) Pan Men-An潘孟安(incumbent) Changhua County Hsieh Ming-Yuan謝明源
Kuan Bi-Lin管碧玲 (incumbent)
Wei Ming-Ku魏明谷
Lin Chia-lung林佳龍
Lee Kun-Tse李昆澤 Chiayi County Chien Chao-Tung簡肇棟 (incumbent)
Chao Tian-Lin趙天麟
Tsai Yi-Yuh蔡易餘 Nantou County
Hsu Chih-Chieh許智傑
Chen Ming-Wen陳明文(incumbent)
Lai Yuan-Shueh賴燕雪
Ilan County
Kuo Wen-Chen郭玟成 (incumbent)
Chen Ou-Poh陳歐珀
Tainan City Taipei City New Taipei City Hsinchu County
Yeh Yi-Jin葉宜津 (incumbent)
Yao Wen-Chih姚文智
Lin Shu-Fen林淑芬 (incumbent)
Perng Shaw-Jiin彭紹瑾(incumbent)
Huang Wei-Cheh黃偉哲
Gao Jyh-Peng高志鵬 (incumbent)
Chen Ting-Fei陳亭妃(incumbent)
Taoyuan County Lin Cho-Shui林濁水
Kuo Jung-Chung郭榮宗(incumbent)
Liao Pen-Yan廖本煙
Keelung City Huang Jen-Shu黃仁杼(incumbent)
Lo Chih-Cheng羅致政
Lin You-Chang林右昌
Chuan Suo-Han莊碩漢
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DPP ends Japan Donation Drive with over NT85 million
DEMOCRACY & PROGRESS
PUBLISHED BY:
Department of International Aff airs DemocraticProgressive Party
9F, No. 30, Pei-Ping EastRoad, Taipei, Taiwan
Tel: 886-2-2392-9989 ext. 306
Fax: 886-2-2393-0342
Email: foreign@dpp.org.tw
Website:
http://www.dpp.org.tw
DIRECTOR:
Bikhim Hsiao
DEPUTY DIRECTOR:
Hsieh Huai-hui
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Michael J. Fonte
EDITOR:
Ping -Ya Hsu
The DPP Japan Donation Drive for victims of Japan’s March 11
earthquake has reached to a close. The one-month donation
drive took place from March 16 to April 16, and a total of NT85
million and 408,096 thousand was wired directly to the Red
Cross of Japan on April 18. The DPP shouldered all administra-
tive costs, meaning that all donations given by the public went
directly to the Red Cross in Japan.
Former Premier and Central Standing Committee Member
Frank Hsieh hosted the press conference on April 20 at the DPP,announcing the total amount collected. Other members of the
DPP's Central Standing Committee also gathered at the press
conference to show the DPP's support for Japan.
Former Premier Hsieh said that this time’s donation drive
organized by the DPP was held in “accordance with the law, in
time and in full”.
“Taiwan is small in size, but our care for others is big,” For-
mer Premier Hsieh said. “Whether we face a domestic or for-
eign tragedy, people are always enthusiastically donating.”
Former Premier Hsieh appealed the Ma Administration toface the security issues of our nuclear power plants as a result
of the nuclear crisis in Japan. He emphasized that our govern-
ment must produce a comprehensive nuclear energy policy, es-
pecially addressing the security issues of the first, second and
third nuclear power plants in Taiwan.