China News Service, February 18 (Xinhua) According to Taiwan media reports, Taiwan People's Party Chairman Ke Wenzhe failed in the 2024 Taiwan region leadership election. After the election, the People's Party launched an intra-party review and made the first wave of personnel adjustments. Zhou Yuxiu, director of Ko Wenzhe's office, will take over as the secretary-general of the People's Party, Chen Zhihan, spokesman for the Ko Wenzhe Office, will take over as director of the "Legislative Yuan" caucus, and Wu Yi-hsuan, deputy director of the Taipei City Council caucus, will take over as director of the newly established "Information Department." This wave of personnel adjustments was interpreted by Taiwanese media as Ke Wenzhe's strong intention to consolidate the party leadership and intensive preparations for the 2026 county and mayor elections in Taiwan.
Taiwan People's Party Chairman Ke Wenzhe. Image source: Taiwan's "United Daily News"
According to reports, in this wave of personnel adjustments, Ke Wenzhe's core campaign staff have been given important positions within the party, and a new "Information Department" has been established to strengthen news and public opinion monitoring and rumor clarification. In the future, news events will be classified according to the "injury classification" method. Develop response measures. In early February, Ke Wenzhe said that the People’s Party had no traditional media or local organizations and decided to open an online TV station.
In addition to personnel adjustments, the People's Party will hold five party representative review meetings in the north, central, south and eastern regions starting from the 19th, and Ke Wenzhe will personally participate. According to public opinion analysis on the island, the results of the review will affect the layout of the 2026 election.
People's Party members pointed out that post-election reviews are continuing. Preliminary discussions believe that compared to the blue and green parties, the local organizations of the People's Party are still behind the scenes (easily breached). From the perspective of local mobilization and momentum building, they are still weak. There is a lot of room for improvement. In the future, in addition to continuing to have non-district “legislators” claiming responsibility for counties and cities to be responsible for local operations, we will also go deep into organizations such as local development associations to improve voter services and increase interaction.
Zhou Yuxiu said that this year’s main focus will be on post-election review and organizational adjustments. In particular, it is difficult to achieve immediate results in party affairs. The past two years have been mainly about preparing for the 2026 county and mayor elections. He hopes that through two years of laying the groundwork, he can strengthen local organizations and grassroots operations. , let the Popular Party take root in various places. At the same time, how to maintain partnerships and even recruit talents to become the People's Party will be the focus of the party's future organizational development.
Ko Wenzhe recently went to Taitung and Hualien to participate in the establishment of local service offices. He was accused of poaching the Blue Camp in the east. He responded, "Not only the Blue Camp, but all of them."
The People's Party holds 8 seats in the "Legislative Yuan" without dividing the "legislator" seats, becoming a key minority. In the future, it will pay more attention to the "Legislative Yuan" battlefield. (over)