Translation of Hung Hsiu-chu 洪秀柱 Sep. 2 ~11 pm Facebook Post



My beloved friends, hello!

I would like to thank everyone for their support and encouragement, which have allowed me to continue down this road fearlessly!

This is an election to find a road for Taiwan. It is, like I have said before, like Xuan Zang’s (玄奘) Journey to the West. There has been much warmth and many touching things along the way. There have also been many difficulties and obstacles. Moreover, it is connected to several points of great confusion about the nation’s direction that urgently need to be clarified.

Hence, I have decided to temporarily cancel by spinning-top-like everyday schedule and undertake deep introspection and contemplation. Only by doing so can I fearlessly advance forward, take up this grand responsibility, and live up to the expectations of the citizens and what they have entrusted me!

After my meditation, I will make a complete report to everyone.

Thank you all! Good night!

UDN Report, Sep. 2, 11:20 pm

KMT presidential candidate Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) posted on Facebook today that she will temporarily suspend her campaign schedule in order to undertake deep introspection and meditation. This sudden action has inspired doubts that she may drop out of the race. But Hung’s campaign office has with great alacrity issued a press release emphasizing that Hung will meditate “for two or three days” about “her strategy to lead the KMT to a comeback victory.”

In response to rumors and doubts that she will drop out, the press release stated that “the situation is very clear, and the KMT has already united to fully support Hung to the end…In recent days Wu, Chu, and Wang have all backed Hung. The unity to support Hung is already very clear…Sister Hung deeply feels her great responsibility. She has to meditate for two to three days to consider her strategy to lead the KMT to a comeback victory.”

S.tw:

Assuming she stays in the race (Ma has appeared determined to keep her in), this looks similar to John McCain’s ill-fated campaign suspension, which was meant to show he put some things above politics but made him look like a gambler. She does need to change her strategy, but no matter how great the advice she hears from the people she’ll spend these coming days with (King Pu-tsung?) she’s already signaled that her campaign is in trouble and that she’s rather impulsive (note the late-night timing and venue of her announcement). And the more her office insists the KMT is united behind her the more the opposite appears true.