The nine-in-one election will be voted on November 26, and registration of candidates will be accepted from now until September 2. Blue, green and white launched the electoral sprint. The Kuomintang’s main goal was to capture Beishi and Taoyuan; the DPP regarded winning the Beishi as the bottom line of not losing the election;
Green is not optimistic, winning the North City is not a loss
As the election situation heats up, DPP Chairman Tsai Ing-wen has started the “election campaign mode”. Recently, he has frequently been an auxiliary candidate for party-member county mayor candidates. The DPP predicted that the green camp election at the end of the year did not have the optimistic capital of the Great Leap Forward. Taipei City will become a key battleground. A trader who participated in the Taipei mayoral election said that the DPP will aim to maximize the number of seats by the end of the year, and has not set a specific number of seats to win, but Taipei City is still of key significance. If the party can win Taipei City, the county mayor election will not be lost.”
Zheng Baoqing, a former legislator of the Democratic Progressive Party, announced his candidacy for mayor of Taoyuan the day before yesterday, casting a shocking bomb on the election. Lai Ruilong, chairman of the DPP Central Review Committee, said yesterday that if Zheng Baoqing still registers for the election, he will be expelled from the party according to party discipline, and he will be punished at the latest in mid-September.
People from the DPP faction pointed out that, according to the assessment of the faction think tank, after Taoyuan “changed the firm” due to the thesis case, the battle in the capital has become the last line of defense to consolidate the core of the party’s power. That is to say, if you lose the election, you should step down and be responsible. At present, the saying that “the North City wins, it is not a loss” has begun to appear. To some extent, it also highlights that the green camp election situation is indeed not optimistic.
Bei Tao stabilizes and blue camps win 16 seats
The Kuomintang held its National Congress in Taoyuan yesterday, and 22 county mayor candidates attended the rally. When asked about the number of county mayor seats he expected to win by the end of the year, Kuomintang Chairman Zhu Lilun did not respond positively, only saying that “the Kuomintang will definitely get the most seats.”
When Zhu ran for the party chairman election last year, he promised to “go for 16 seats and more than half of all 6 seats”, and if he failed to do so, he would step down and be held accountable. Party officials pointed out that due to the DPP’s recent controversies, such as vaccines, the plagiarism of papers, and the draft law on digital intermediary services, Blue Camp’s elections in Taipei and Taoyuan have stabilized. Some 14 seats, 16 seats and 6 are more than half of the target. At present, the elections in Penghu, Kinmen and Yunlin are relatively tight.
Three wins over Bai Pan and then the Ke whirlwind
According to the analysis of election officials from the People’s Party, the images of Taipei mayoral candidate Huang Shanshan, Taoyuan mayoral candidate Lai Xiangling and Hsinchu mayoral candidate Gao Hongan are more attractive to young people and middle voters, especially those who have moved outside of Taoyuan and Zhudu. The majority of voters are in the middle. This time, both blue and green just made a big mistake, attracting voters to support the People’s Party more. Party Chairman Ke Wenzhe also wants to recreate the “Ke Wenzhe Cyclone” of 2014. In the future, the auxiliary elections in the three places will be closely linked. I believe that the polls will be improved to a higher level.
The election committee stated that candidates who apply for registration as county and city councillors, mayors directly under the central government, and county mayors should declare their property when applying for candidate registration. The election will elect 11,023 local public officials, and it is expected that 17,648 polling offices will be set up across the country.