As a political victim of the White Terror era, like Chen, I have no choice, but to voice my condemnation. Even more commendable is that family members and lawyers of the Kaohsiung Incident’s victims subsequently ran for office. During his 2014 campaign, Ko, fishing for sympathy, said that he was a family member of a 228 Incident victim. Failing to become the People First Party candidate, he established his own party, for which he appropriated the name of a party founded in 1927 by Taiwanese democracy pioneer Chiang Wei-shui (蔣渭水). On winning enough seats in the Legislative Yuan, the TPP would be eligible to nominate its own presidential candidate,: namely Ko.

Source: Taipei Times October 16, 2019 15:56 UTC