Vice President Annette Lu (
That was the message yesterday from Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Lee Wen-chung (
On Tuesday, Lee and 12 DPP comrades unveiled at the legislature a petition signed by 29 lawmakers expressing concern over Chen's selection of his presidential running mate.
A week earlier, Chen had intimated that he would choose Lu as his running mate again.
When presenting the petition, the DPP lawmakers advised that the president must make a careful decision about who should be his running mate next year, saying the ideal candidate must be one who not only could work with Chen but increased the chances of the ticket's winning the election.
The lawmakers did not specifically say that they were opposed to Lu, some even going out of their way to dispel rumors to that effect. Legislator Chiu Yi-ying (
But following comments by Lu to the effect that she would be willing to sign the petition giving advice to the president about his selection herself, Lee brought the hidden anti-Lu message out into the open.
"We strongly disagree with Vice President Lu running with the president in next year's presidential election," Lee said.
"We disagree with selecting Lu ... because we really want to win the election," Lee said.
A presidential ticket composed Chen and Lu would have the least hope for the DPP's retention of the presidency next year, Lee said.
"Most opinion polls conducted in the past six months on the next presidential election, show that the Chen-Lu combination behind the pan-blue presidential candidates but also getting even the lowest support of the various combinations of DPP vice presidential potentials with Chen," Lee said.
"We have seen public dissatisfaction with the vice president's coordination with President Chen ever since the party came to power three years ago," Lee said.
Lee described a Chen-Lu combination s hopeless.
Legislator Chiu Chui-chen (
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