DPP official wants rewrite of post-election report

On Wednesday, outbound Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen furnished a draft of the DPP's 2012 election review. Party representative Lin Yu-chang (林右昌) told reporters that the draft met a positive reception in the Central Standing Committee and is set for final submission Feb. 22.

But the draft “lacks introspection” and offloads blame for the election defeat onto external forces, You posted on the social-networking site Facebook.

Report 'mentally handicapped': You

“In frank terms, this kind of review is a mentally handicapped performance,” he wrote.

You said that Tsai's oversight has produced an “unscientific,” “not objective,” “not conscientious,” and “incomprehensive” assessment that “might as well not have been written at all.”

The draft “evades responsibility” and simply “goes through the motions.”

“It is simply stunning,” he said.

According to Lin, Tsai's draft cited the Kuomintang's abuse of administrative resources, cross-strait economic intimidation, and a tactically determined Election Day as reasons for the DPP defeat.

Said You, that's behaving as a child who fails to pass an exam and tells his parents that the questions were too hard, the test date was too early, the teacher's standards were too high, and that other students cheated.

By no means does he admit that he should have studied harder, he said.

Tsai must set aside fears of pain and embarrassment and permit a badly needed rewrite by “more professional and more ambitious” aides or persons unaffiliated with her presidential campaign, said You.

You, a registered DPP member, was formerly vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council (陸委會) and vice president of the Ketagalan Institute.

Writing on the Wall

Meanwhile, Hung Chih-kun (洪智坤) of the DPP Central Executive Committee was also gloomy on Facebook:

“The hard work of Tsai Ing-wen and party leaders is worth affirming, but when a review is authored by party leaders, how far up can any assessment go? Will they dare to point out the real problems?”

In early Feb., Hung told local media he is concerned over the lackadaisical efforts going into the post-election report.

Not Whole Picture: Lin

Responded Lin yesterday, the report's data are in fact “very comprehensive,” while its analyses are “scientific” and “rigorous.”

The outside world can only see excerpts and not the whole picture, he said.

Lin added that Chen Chu (陳菊), William Lai (賴清德), Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) and others in Central Standing Committee were commendatory toward the draft.

Moreover, the draft is just a draft, he said. The document provided a basis for discussion on Wednesday and will see revisions before final submission.

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