Kuomintangled; Taiwan's election.(A bad election for the Kuomintang in Taiwan)(Taiwan's Nationalist Party loses control of parliament)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: December 8, 2001 | Copyright information

The electoral humbling of the Kuomintang is good news and bad news for Taiwan

THE demise of a great political party is a moving thing. And the Kuomintang (KMT) is one of the world's most venerable, founded by Sun Yat-sen himself in 1912, and having exercised power continuously since 1928, first on the Chinese mainland and, since 1949, on Taiwan. In Taiwan's election last weekend, it lost its control of parliament, having lost the presidency to Chen Shui-bian last year. With large parts of its membership deserting it for breakaway parties--including one established by Lee ...

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