DPP needs hard work for 'Taiwan dream'

Taiwan's opposition Democratic Progressive Party needs to rebuild popular trust and support the "hard way" by showing in deeds that it offers "a better choice" than both the ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) government under President Ma Ying-jeou and the previous DPP administration under ex-president Chen Shui-bian. In an address to a party congress Sunday, DPP Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen declared that her party's campaign in city and county mayoral elections the December 5 will "re-polish" the DPP's tarnished signboards of "quality administration" and the values of "integrity, diligent governance and love of country." One day after Ma completed his controversial reassumption of the KMT chairmanship, Tsai, buoyed by a landslide DPP victory in a legislative by-election in Yunlin County last month, steered her party in... [read full story]                    

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