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Thumbs Down for Chen
The First Lady's indictment on corruption charges puts Taiwan's
President in jeopardy
By AUSTIN RAMZY
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Sunday, Nov. 05, 2006
Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has survived an assassin's bullet,
massive opposition demonstrations and two legislative recall motions
seeking to remove him from office. But after Taiwan High Court
prosecutors indicted First Lady Wu Shu-chen on corruption and forgery
charges last Friday, Chen now faces the biggest challenge yet to his
presidency.
Conventional wisdom has held that Chen could stay in power as long as
none of the long-swirling corruption allegations involving friends and
family stuck to him or his wife. That scenario has now come to pass.
Prosecutors say Wu used others' receipts to falsely claim $450,000 from
a state fund. Three presidential aides were also charged, and Chen
himself was listed as an accomplice and could face charges upon leaving
office, when he loses presidential immunity. Amid renewed
demonstrations against Chen in Taipei, Ma Ying-jeou, head of the
opposition Kuomintang (KMT), vowed a third recall motion if the
President did not step down within two days.
Chen's future, though, may be decided not by his opponents but by his
supporters. His Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) stood by him during
previous recall efforts, preventing the KMT and its allies from
securing the legislative support needed to put a referendum to Taiwan's
voters. "Up to now," says Shelley Rigger, a Taiwan expert at Davidson
College in North Carolina, DPP members "have said if the choice is
between supporting Chen or supporting our political enemies, we go with
Chen." But now their frustration "could reach the tipping point." If
only 12 of the legislature's 85 DPP members defect on a recall vote,
Chen's fate will be in the hands of Taiwan's widely disillusioned
public. That's a threat even Chen will have a hard time surviving.
With reporting by Natalie Tso
From the Nov. 13, 2006 issue of TIME Asia magazine
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