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In Taiwan, is another member of the Chiang dynasty on the rise?
- Wayne Chiang Wan-an, the great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek and grandson of Chiang Ching-kuo, considers running for mayor of Taipei
- But the Chiangs’ checkered records as Taiwan presidents, observers say, could be more of a liability than an asset
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The great-grandson of the Kuomintang leader and former Taiwanese president Chiang Kai-shek is expected to announce that he is running for mayor of Taipei after the Lunar New Year holiday.
Wayne Chiang Wan-an, a KMT legislator in Taiwan’s parliament, has been mulling whether to seek the post in the local government elections at the end of this year. The mayoralty will be vacant after Ko Wen-je, of the opposition Taiwan People’s Party, ends his two terms in December.
Chiang, 43, had been a corporate lawyer in the United States before returning to Taiwan to run for legislator, and in his first two terms has been rated as one of the best and most attentive lawmakers by local political monitoring groups.
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He has been viewed as the possible front runner for mayor of Taiwan’s capital city, with numerous polls showing him leading other potential candidates, including Health Minister Chen Shih-chung from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and the incumbent deputy mayor Huang Shan-shan from the tiny opposition People’s First Party.
In the latest survey released by the cable news network TVBS on January 20, the US-educated Chiang drew a support rate of 40 per cent, Chen had 29 per cent and Huang 19 per cent.
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