From Asia Times Online:
Lien Chan, the chairman of Taiwan’s largest opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), on Thursday announced that he will step down from his post in August after an election for a successor in May. This followed several weeks of will-he, won’t-he speculation as to his intentions.
After legislative elections in December in which Lien’s party did surprisingly well, it was thought that, having in part redeemed himself from the ignominy of two presidential-election defeats, Lien would be content to pass on the baton. But during February this has seemed, at times, an increasingly remote possibility.
