Friction within the pan-green camp intensified yesterday after the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) announced that it might nominate its Keelung-based legislator Wang Tuoh (
DPP Secretary-General Lee Yi-yang (李逸洋) announced yesterday morning that a telephone poll conducted over the past three days about the four DPP members who want to run for Keelung mayor showed that 85 percent of respondents supported Wang, so the party would back him for the race.
SECOND SURVEY
Lee said the party would conduct another survey soon to see whether Wang would have more support than the TSU's nominee Chen Chien-ming (陳建銘).
If Wang's support rate is higher than Chen's, the DPP will nominate Wang rather than give the nomination to the TSU.
"We believed that it is the most scientific and democratic way to decide who will be the candidate for the Keelung mayoral election. We also believe that it is a democratic mechanism that all the pan-green supporters can accept," Lee said.
He said that based on the results of last December's legislative elections, there could be three scenarios for the Keelung race. The pan-green camp won about 37 percent of votes in the December polls, the People First Party won 35 percent and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) won 24 percent.
THREE SCENARIOS
"First, the pan-green camp will lose the election if it is not united. Second, the pan-green camp will lose if the candidate backed by both the DPP and the TSU is not good enough. Third, the pan-green camp will win if the DPP and the TSU field a good joint candidate," Lee said.
"So the DPP and TSU have to work together, otherwise the pan-blue camp will once again control Keelung," Lee said.
Lee urged the TSU to accept the telephone poll results if Wang beats Chen and to support Wang in the year-end election.
"If Chen wins, the DPP will help Chen campaign for Keelung mayor," Lee said.
TSU STANDS FIRM
The TSU, however, said it would not give up nominating a candidate whatever the results of the DPP's survey might be.
"We have already nominated Chen and the nomination will not change," TSU Secretary-General Cheng Cheng-lung (程振隆) said yesterday.
"We have asked the DPP not to nominate anyone in Keelung and give this electoral district to the TSU, but regrettably, it has ignored our request."
"The TSU will campaign to the end," Cheng said. "I urge the DPP to reconsider the nomination. No one wants to see it cause a failure to both of us."
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