The DPP yesterday held its first conference in preparation for the year-end electoral campaigns. Representatives from the party's headquarters, the presidential office and the Executive Yuan were in attendance.
During the conference, the party agreed to hold three large-scale campaign rallies in northern, central and southern Taiwan respectively on Aug. 18, Sept. 15 and Sept. 29. Details and venues of the rallies will be discussed in the near future.
Three major campaign teams will also be formed for the party's headquarters, the presidential office and the Executive Yuan.
"It is smart politically for the party's government officials to express their support for all party candidates when they are off duty," DPP Secretary-General Wu Nai-jen (吳乃仁) told reporters yesterday afternoon after the conference.
Wu, however, added that the party would not ask any government officials who were not party members to solicit votes for the party since they should remain impartial.
The party also discussed its electoral agenda, which will include "legislative reforms" -- one suggestion being to cut by half the 225 legislative seats -- and "economic revitalization."
Cabinet Secretary-General Chiou I-jen (邱義仁) suggested yesterday that, during the elections, the party should broach new issues and conduct media campaigns every two months to coincide with the latest news developments.
In addition to Wu and Chiou, those attending yesterday's conference included Secretary-General to the President Yu Shyi-kun, DPP Chairman Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) and other party officials.
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