With the KMT chairman re-elected in 2025, everyone in the blue camp is ready to move, but by all accounts, Taichung Mayor Lu Xiuyan is seen as the strongest potential candidate, far ahead of current party chairman Zhu Lilun, New Taipei Mayor Hou Youyi, and Taiwan Provincial Legislature head Korea Kuo-yu. In this regard, Xiao Xucen, CEO of the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation, also came forward to praise Lu Xiuyan, believing that she is the most suitable candidate for the 2026 Kuomintang chairmanship.
Xiao Xucen was asked by the host when he was interviewed by the radio program, whether he would suggest that Lu Xiuyan run for the new chairman of the Kuomintang? Xiao Xucen said that he would definitely support her, and he also hoped that Lu Xiuyan would better participate in the 2028 gubernatorial election. In his words, "According to the past practice and tradition of the Kuomintang, it is customary for the party chairman to run for the governor of Taiwan, so in 2016, Zhu Lilun did not elect the governor, Ma Ying-jeou was very unimpressed, and the two were still a little unhappy on this issue at that time, at that time Ma communicated with Zhu that the party chairman should be elected, why not elect!" Later, the former party chairman Hong Xiuzhu ran for election, and then the polls collapsed, and there was a change of columns, which made the situation of the KMT very bad.
Xiao Xucen recalled that in 2020, Korea Kuo-yu is the mayor of Kaohsiung running for governor of Taiwan, and by 2024, Hou Youyi New Taipei mayor will run for governor of Taiwan, Han and Hou are not party chairmen, so there is no way to fully mobilize all the resources of the Kuomintang, so it is inevitable that there will be some deficiencies in the operation of election affairs and party affairs, so that there is no way to mobilize all forces, so the 2028 gubernatorial candidate should also serve as the chairman of the Kuomintang party in order to have the ability to defeat the DPP, which is the current mainstream view in the party, Therefore, the Ma Ying-jeou clique also hopes that the next KMT chairman can be the same person as the 2028 gubernatorial candidate, preferably Lu Xiuyan, in the words of Xiao Xucen, "And since many people are optimistic about Lu Xiuyan challenging the 2028 position, then she should run for party chairman next year." ”
What is quite interesting this time is that Ma Ying-jeou did not come forward to support Lu Xiuyan himself, but chose to let Xiao Xucen come forward, which has two benefits, the first point is to avoid embarrassment, after all, Wang Jinping, the old enemy in the party, just spoke out to support Lu Xiuyan, and he ran out to support Lu Xiuyan, which seemed to be a bit deliberately finding fault, and the two fought in the ring again, which was not good-looking; The second point is to give young people a chance, don't use all the remaining exposure on themselves, lest they have "no successor", and let Xiao Xucen often appear as the successor of "Ma Ying-jeou", so that he can fight in the election campaign in the future.
However, Xiao Xucen, as Ma Ying-jeou's agent, pointed out a very acute problem within the KMT, that is, the current KMT politicians dare not talk about the '92 consensus and dare not say that they are Chinese, but it is clear that the KMT's constitution and political platform all talk about this '92 consensus, which leads to Lai Qingde's heresy that is not subordinate to each other to confuse many supporters and the people, and even "Weng Xiaoling, a legislator in the party, said that I am Chinese, and no one supports her, only I come out to support, and I feel that the KMT has encountered a big bottleneck." This can be said to be a reminder that Ma Ying-jeou wants to give Lu Xiuyan, after all, if the current KMT cannot hold the god card of the 92 consensus, then it will be very difficult to defeat the current Taiwan governor Lai Qingde in the next general election. As for whether Lu Xiuyan will listen to it, this is still unknown.