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Kuomintang (KMT).
“KMT is a party that is 105
years old. It is less likely to make
big changes to the system and the
political environment. The two
parties have political models that
they have been following for years.
While it is a relatively stable sys-
tem, it also means that innovation
is rare,” he says.
“If You don’t Care about
Politics, Politics doesn’t
Care about You”
Li Guan-ting, Taiwan People’s Party’s Youth Organisation member after joining
TTP’s campaign rally. University student Lo Yung-
“ I hope the party sheng has a different view from
“Even though I am not an offi- Li and prefers joining a political
cial member of the political party, will put my party with a long history.
I can express my opinion to party opinion into
members. I hope the party consid- consideration The 22-year-old student joined
ers my opinion when drafting pol- KMT as a youth league leader in
icy proposals which are submitted when 2022. He thinks the 105-year-old
to the government,” Li says. drafting policy party is pragmatic when dealing
proposals which with issues such as relations with
In 2023, he met TPP’s vice- mainland China, the economy,
president candidate Cynthia Wu are submitted to and the environment.
Hsin-ying to discuss issues related the government ”
to sovereign wealth fund, a state- Apart from taking part in policy “KMT’s pragmatic approach
owned investment fund that in- discussions, Li also runs commu- can unite the people in Taiwan and
vests in real and financial assets nity services with funding from really help Taiwan move forward,”
such as stocks, bonds, and real es- the party. he says.
tate, at the Legislative Yuan.
“We are not paid. The party dis- When having discussion with
“I worry about the sustain- tributes funds to us so that we pas- older party members, Kang says
ability of sovereign wealth funds. sionate about, such as taking stray that he does not necessarily always
It might be hollowed out, lead- cats and dogs to be vaccinated,” Li have to agree with them.
ing to financial loss for the public. says.
Cynthia Wu agreed that there are Among all matters, Lo feels es-
policies that can be formulated to Li says there are more oppor- pecially frustrated about the visit
prevent such issues by studying tunities for young people to voice to the office of Beijing’s envoy to
experience in other countries,” Li their views in TPP, which was es- Hong Kong by KMT’s Han Kuo-
recalls. tablished in 2019, compared with yu, now the speaker of the island’s
the other two major parties with a legislature, in 2019.
longer history, namely DPP and-
