Who will follow Taiwan's Ma Ying-jeou at helm of KMT?
Failure to groom large group of rising stars has left Taiwan's ruling party with uncertain future after president's last term comes to end in 2016
Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang party is facing a severe shortage of political talent to replace the older generation and secure power in the coming decade.
Only a handful of younger KMT members followed their parents into politics, and the party is finding it increasingly difficult to attract new blood to maintain the power it regained with President Ma Ying-jeou's election five years ago.
Between 2000 and 2008, the Democratic Progressive Party had kept the KMT in opposition. It was the only period that the century-old nationalist party had not ruled the island since "generalissimo" Chiang Kai-shek abandoned the mainland and fled to Taiwan during the civil war in 1949.
But less than halfway through Ma's second and final term, many pundits and party members are wondering who in the KMT can fill his shoes after 2016?
In the short term, most observers identify three candidates from the current generation of leaders: Vice-President Wu Den-yih, New Taipei Mayor Eric Chu Li-luan and Premier Jiang Yi-huah.
But it appears the KMT's line of succession could stop there, as no one has so far emerged with the personality, charisma and capability to lead the KMT for the next decade or more.