DPP to take dual-track development strategy: Chair

Tsai made the remarks before attending a New Spring greeting gathering of the Yunlin County Fellow Natives Association in Taipei yesterday evening. Chairman Huang Kun-hui of the Taiwan Solidarity Union and Deputy Yunlin Magistrate Lee Ying-yuan were also present at the meeting.

The DPP head said that a provisional Central Standing Committee meeting of the party will be held today to discuss action plans concerning the year-end election of local county and city chiefs and key tasks the DPP will undertake this year.

Tsai stressed there is no discrepancy, as alleged by some news media, among party members about the route the DPP will take for its future direction. Instead, she stressed, party leaders have developed a consensus that the two-pronged tactics of social movement and parliament orientation will be practiced simultaneously.

Some news media have mistakenly narrowed the “social movement route” to “street movement.” Actually, social movement covers aspects as social reform subjects, political system reform and thinking modes.

Today's tentative central standing committee meeting will be dedicated to discussions on what the DPP should do this year, including election campaigns concerning the year-end county and city chief polls.

When asked to comment on the remarks made by former Premier Su Tsen-chang, who was also a former Taipei county magistrate, to join the year-end election as DPP's candidate for the Taipei county magistrate, Tsai said that she didn't read any similar media reports, and it's too early for her to comment on any possibilities on this issue as the Taipei county candidate nomination is still under way.

Tsai also reiterated that her major mission is to help the DPP win the year-end election of local county and city chiefs, not runn in the election on her own as a candidate for a county or city chief position.

In fact, the future development route for the DPP is likely to spark heated debates at today's central standing committee meeting of the party, as it will significantly affect the overall image of the DPP and its performance in the year-end elections.

If the DPP tilts toward the social movement, then it will be highly difficult for the party to win support from non-partisan votes. As a result it would be difficult for the party to win year-end elections, political observers said.

Accordingly, how to secure a balance between the social movement and parliament orientation will be an important task facing the DPP and challenge the wisdom of its leaders.

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