To boost its election campaign, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) plans to hold large-scale parades nationwide on the last weekend before the vote while the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) plans to feature former president Lee Teng-hui (
The DPP decided on Tuesday night to hold large-scale parades in Taipei and other cities on Dec. 4 to boost its campaign just prior to the poll.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
DPP Deputy Secretary-General Chung Chia-pin (
Chung said that President Chen Shui-bian (
Chen will not campaign for TSU candidates because of the DPP's party regulations, Chung said.
The TSU, meanwhile, will soon organize into two campaign teams in the face of the DPP's four campaign teams, which have potentially infringed on the TSU's ballot turf, TSU Legislator Lo Chih-ming (
Lo is the party's chief campaign manager.
According to the TSU's secretary-general, Lin Chih-chia (林志嘉), Lee's daughter Annie Lee (李安妮), who enjoys high popularity among pan-green supporters, and former National Security Council senior advisor Lai Hsin-yuan (賴幸媛), the TSU's legislator-at-large nominee will lead the women's campaign team. They will campaign around the nation, while another team aimed at drawing the support of young voters will soon be established.
Lo noted that supporters of the DPP and the TSU overlap, and the TSU is worried about the campaigns of its new nominees, given the DPP's active electioneering.
Therefore, Lo said, Lee will also join in the campaign activities in November and go all out to boost the candidates, especially the new nominees.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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