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Talk show host Jaw Shaw-kong plans to run for president in 2024 to ‘make Taiwan great again’
- Popular television personality rejoined the opposition Kuomintang party a week ago
- He says he’s putting himself forward because he believes the government is doing a ‘lousy’ job
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Popular Taiwanese talk show host Jaw Shaw-kong on Monday said he planned to run for president in 2024 because he wanted to “make Taiwan great again”.
A week after he rejoined the main opposition party after almost 30 years away, Jaw said in a news conference that he aimed to represent the Kuomintang in the next election.
“I plan to seek to join the KMT’s presidential primaries – under [the party’s] regulations, I’m eligible to take part in the race,” said the 70-year-old media personality who was once considered a political star in Taiwan.
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Jaw said he was putting himself forward because he believed the ruling Democratic Progressive Party was doing a “lousy” job of governing the island.
“[President] Tsai Ing-wen is no good either,” he said, adding that her government had failed to take into account opposition voices and had done what it could to silence them.
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He also accused the Tsai government of leading the self-ruled island down a risky path, given the rising tensions between Taipei and Beijing.
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