The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) will pick three candidates for commissioner and mayoral elections in Hsinchu County, Miaoli County and Keelung next month, while leaving open the option of cooperating with other parties, a DPP official said yesterday.
According to DPP spokesman Chen Wen-tsan (
Yang was the assistant to senior presidential adviser and former Hakka council chairwoman Yeh Chu-lan (
Yang is also a Hakka, and has a good reputation in the county.
But Cheng said the DPP is evaluating Yang's chances in the year-end elections and still organizing Yang's campaign team.
KMT confirms
Meanwhile, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) confirmed that it would nominate KMT Legislator Liu Cheng-hung (
The PFP also plans to nominate its own candidate in Miaoli County.
The DPP's Cheng pointed out that the case of Miaoli County showed that the pan-blue camp is having trouble cooperating and will lack unity in the year-end elections.
In light of this situation, there is no need for the DPP to announce its final candidate too soon, Cheng said.
Cooperation possible
In the Hsinchu County commissioner race, the DPP plans to nominate either Taiwan Provincial Governor Lin Kuang-hua (林光華) or DPP Legislator Peng Shao-chin (彭紹瑾), but the party has not excluded the possibility of cooperating with the PFP.
Some DPP members have suggested that the party should work with the PFP to get KMT Legislator Chiu Ching-chun (
Chiu is challenging fellow KMT member and Hsinchu County Commissioner Cheng Yung-chin (
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