DPP puts final touches on draft report review of presidential poll loss

Outgoing Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen has promised an assessment of her and the party's performance in the 2012 election.

According to DPP spokeswoman Lin Yu-chang, the DPP Central Standing Committee, county magistrates, and city mayors reviewed a draft on Wednesday, providing “enthusiastic feedback.”

Aides will sort through the feedback and revise the draft, so that the Central Standing Committee can approve a final version on Wednesday, Feb. 22, he said.

'Objective, scientific, and rational'

The report is an “objective, scientific, and rational analysis” of data from polling departments and campaign offices across Taiwan, Lin continued.

According to Lin, the DPP had been locked in a tight race with incumbent Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Ma Ying-jeou until the two-week run-up to Election Day.

Factors that scuttled the campaign include “cross-strait economic intimidation,” “the KMT's use of administrative resources,” and the timing of Election Day and its effect on specific voters.

Lin said that according to analyzes of voting behavior, regions where the DPP owns the advantage also tend to be marked by population outflow. As a result, an inconveniently timed Election Day that deters homebound voters is a particular blow to DPP voters.

Said Lin, Tsai told the Central Standing Committee that in the half-year before Election Day, polling booths showed that the DPP pulled ahead of the KMT four times.

She said this performance shows that the DPP stood a strong chance of taking the election. According to Lin, Tsai told the closed-door panel that they cannot negate the DPP's recent growth based on one failure, as the party did garner 46 percent of the nation.

“Remember the 6,090,000 Taiwanese who supported the DPP,” said Lin, quoting Tsai.

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