Taiwan’s Year of Electoral Tumult

Taiwan’s wild

electoral process is set to become even more tumultuous, with five candidates already

declared for president a year in advance of next March’s polls and corruption

charges swirling around both major political parties.

President Chen Shui-bian, who took office

in 2000 as a reform antidote to the scandal-plagued Kuomintang, faces charges

of his ow…