December 29, 2020, Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation Chairman Ying-Lung Yoo: Seven months into Tsai’s re-election, opponents have increased by 4 million, indicating the end of the honeymoon period for her second term.
Seven months after the successful re-election of Tsai Ing-wen with more than 8 million votes at the beginning of the year, green polls show a sharp increase of 4 million opponents, and former DPP legislator Lin Houshui criticized that Tsai Ing-wen’s brother-in-law will be the president of the Supreme Administrative Court, making the people feel the same disgust as Ma Ying-jeou’s interference in judicial personnel. Scholars believe that the public is dissatisfied with the government, including the policy of opening up pork containing lean meat extract and maintaining freedom of the press. The chairman of Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation (TPOF), You Ying-lung, who is in charge of the poll, said that from the perspective of the poll results, it reflects that the honeymoon period after Tsai’s re-election is over.
According to the poll released by the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation, 53% of the people approved of Tsai’s governance style during her seven-month re-election, while 36% disapproved, although the results of this poll reflected that those who approved were 16.5 percentage points more than those who disapproved. However, if compared to last month’s poll, the number of those who approve has decreased by 2.4 percentage points, while those who disapprove has increased by 5.2 percentage points, and the proportion of those who approve over those who disapprove has significantly decreased by 7.6 percentage points.
The difference between the high and low is 20.7 percentage points, meaning that the number of people who disapprove of Tsai has increased sharply over the past 7 months, and if calculated based on the actual adult population, there are about 4 million people.
You said that according to the definition of “presidential honeymoon period” used by the foundation, Tsai’s honeymoon period in line with her second term has ended this month.
If we use the terminology of a basketball game, Tsai’s government played a very good game in the first half, mainly in The prevention of epidemics and relief of hardships, which left the people speechless and impressed the world. But in the second half of the year, it seems to be more problems, in basketball terms or can be said to be too much physical action, foul action, more sloppy is rash, or ugly, let’s say the government to suppress an unarmed doctor and so on.
You Yinglong said that although Tsai Ing-wen performed well at the beginning of the year, but then the DPP administration disregarded the feelings of the people, so that the opposition to the people increased sharply.
You Yinglong said: you have to say that over the past year, there are no major policies that have caused unhappiness and backlash, grievances of the people, it is clear that four: the first is the import of pig (containing lean pork); the second judicial reform; the third food safety concerns; the fourth is the maintenance of freedom of the press, it seems that the people are opinionated. This is certainly not a good sign, especially in the second half of the Tsai government seems to have repeatedly forced through the Guanshan legislation, and the majority of public opinion on the opposite side of the situation, but still decided to force through the Guanshan, these practices as a whole, the second half of the performance is really quite bad.
Former DPP member Lin Houshui believes that we all know that the opening of the United States pork imports containing lean meat extract is an exchange of conditions with the United States, if the DPP said clearly believe that everyone will understand, but in the opening process, Tsai Ing-wen completely ignored the feelings of the people.
Lin Yunshui said: President Ma to open the U.S. cattle, the Democratic Progressive Party to fight to the death over there to block and occupy the Legislative Yuan, the opposition position is so clear, the action is so fierce, just one not like the Kuomintang to throw the cow offal, this impression of time dragged too long, the public impression is too deep. The people, of course, fainted and thought how to be so arrogant.
Lin Yunshui said that Tsai Ing-wen’s brother-in-law, Wu Ming-hung, will take over as president of the Supreme Administrative Court, so that the people feel that the practice and Ma Ying-jeou’s intervention in judicial personnel back then is the same, obviously against the spirit of judicial independence, so that the people feel disappointed.
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