You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!
So the nationalist KMT held a demonstration yesterday, March 19, which was the first anniversary of the assassination attempt on Taiwan's president and vice president. The KMT claims that the only reason their candidate did not win the presidential election last year was that the DPP themselves engineered the assassination attempt on the president, and set it up so that the assassin would shoot the president but only graze his stomach and set another bullet ricocheting around the car and hit the vice president in the knee (they were both shot when they were standing up in a moving car). This simple arrangement was meant to create an emotional storm of support for the president and give him a second term in office.
When the incumbent DPP president won his re-election (with a razor-thin margin of less than 30,000 votes out of 13 million or so cast, later validated in a recount monitored by both government and opposition) the KMT and the other blue camp parties filed two lawsuits to have both the election as a whole invalidated due to election fraud, and to have the election of the president invalidated due to the manipulation in connection to the fake assassination attempt, just in case the election as a whole would be approved.
As expected, both lawsuits were defeated. Their legislative majority together with the PFP and the New Party then allowed them to set up a "truth commission" to find out the truth about the assassination attempt, the truth being predefined as the assassination attempt being set up and the election as being illegal, and the only findings acceptable would be the ones that supported the predefined truth. The truth commission was found by the Constitutional Court to have been given extralegal, unconstitutional rights, and has since been closed down.
The national police has found evidence that the assassin was a man that has already either committed suicide or been murdered. Pretty convenient that he's already dead, but his wife has said that he was the one, and she has also admitted to having destroyed proof to that effect in order to protect her and her family from any repercussions.
The KMT does not like this kind of truth, and they are now trying to set up a second truth commission to carry on the holy mission of the first commission: to prove their definition of the truth. They may very well succeed in setting tup hat commission, since the blue camp still holds a legislative majority, although there has been some kind of reconciliation between the PFP and the DPP, and that may still throw a spanner in the KMT works.
What it all seems to boil down to is that the KMT is unable to enter the democratic era, and that they still view the world through the eyes of the bloody dictatorship that the party ran for 50 years, a period when everything they predefined as the truth was later always found to be just that -- the truth. Having been unable to win a single national election in the democratic era (well, they could be seen as having won the legislative election in December, since the blue camp, quite unexpectedly many would say, managed to maintain their legislative majority, with the PFP losing seats and the KMT gaining), they are prepared to do anything to win back the power they see as their birthright. That is not a very democratic point of departure, and almost as scary as the fact that they won't renounce China's anti-secession law, instead giving it tacit support.