LETTER FROM TAIWAN. From: The Advocate | Date: July 1, 2000| Author: Harnetty, Richard P. | COPYRIGHT 2000 Vancouver Bar Association (Canada). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

DPP TROUNCES KMT

Local elections seem to stimulate me to write these letters. In my last appearance here (July 1999), Taipei's mayoral elections had recently concluded, with a conclusive victory by the KMT (Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party) over the independence-minded DPP (Democratic Progressive Party), led at the time by incumbent Chen Shui-bian.

In what must be one of history's most amazing political comebacks, Chen Shui-bian fought a bitterly divisive batt...

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