Kaohsiung Voters Support Corruption

Chang Yun-ping cites commentators who view the by-election for Kaohsiung City councilors as a victory for the "Taiwanese identity", which means people who say that they are Taiwanese and not Chinese. But Chang also says,

...a mockery was made of the city's electoral politics as Kaohsiung's vote-buying culture proved that it is alive and well with the election of Chu Ting-shan (朱挺珊), who ran in the by-election on behalf of her father, Chu An-hsiung (朱安雄), a former city council speaker who has been convicted of vote-buying...

Three of the nine candidates from the bribe-taking families were elected. They are, in addition to Chu Ting-shan, Tsai Wu-nan (蔡武男), son of former councilor Tsai Ching-yuan (蔡慶源), and Chen Li-nah (陳麗娜), wife of former councilor Yang Ming-lang (楊敏郎).