Taiwan's nine -in -one election ended, and American think tank expert Bonnie Glaser analyzed that local elections are more concerned about internal affairs rather than cross -strait issues and cannot be used as indicators for the 2024 Taiwan election.
According to the Taiwan Central News Agency, this year's nine -in -one local election was considered by some analysts to be the outpost of the Presidential election in 2024, but the US think tank "German Marshall Foundation" (GMF) Asia Planning Director and long -term attention on both sides of the straitGe Laiyi of the topic does not think so.
Ge Laiyi Sunday (November 27) said in an interview with the Central News Agency that local elections in Taiwan mainly focused on candidate characteristics and internal affairs issues, not cross -strait relations; in her opinion, the nine -in -one election could not beAs an indicator of the 2024 election.
Shelley Rigger, a professor of Politics at Davidson College, North Carolina College, who specializes in Taiwan's politics, also believes that the nine -in -one election mainly focuses on the internal affairs and candidates themselves, and it is very small with cross -strait issues.But she pointed out that the election showed that the Kuomintang had not been eliminated in Taiwan's election politics and was still a member of competitiveness.
However, Ren Xueli believes that if the Kuomintang really wants to have competitiveness, it is not a good thing to be labeled by the media as a "pro -China" label. It needs to adjust the external information, which is more in line with the preferences of the mainstream public opinion in Taiwan.
The results of the nine -in -one election were announced on the evening of the 26th. The Kuomintang won 13 counties and cities in the 21 county mayor elections, including Taipei, Xinbei, Taoyuan, and Taichung.Only the five counties and cities were kept, so she resigned as the party chairman and assumed the responsibility of the election frustration.
