Efforts to integrate the pan-blue camp for the year-end elections continued yesterday with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and People First Party (PFP) agreeing on candidates for Taipei and Lienchiang counties, as well as Chiayi City, on the last day for candidate registration.
KMT Organization and Development Committee chief Liao Feng-teh (
Yesterday also marked the last day for any aspirants wishing to run for city and county heads and councilmen, as well as village and township heads, to register for the Dec. 3 elections.
PHOTO: WANG MING-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
After their meeting, Liao and Chin announced the two parties had agreed to support KMT Legislator Huang Ming-hui (黃敏惠) as their candidate for mayor of Chiayi. In Lienchiang County, the KMT will support the re-election bid of Commissioner Chen Hsue-sheng (陳雪生), a member of the PFP. In return, the PFP's candidates in Hsinchu and Ilan counties will pull out of those races and support the KMT's candidates instead.
In Taipei County, which has the most voters and is therefore seen as an important battle zone, PFP member Wang An-bang (
The pan-blue camp could not agree, however, on a single candidate for Keelung, Hualien or Miaoli counties, or Taichung City and Ilan City.
Chin said that although the pan-blue camp's integration hasn't been smooth, and the KMT had "responded to the PFP's sincerity with cold-heartedness" in refusing to give up the Miaoli County race, he would continue to make an effort to cooperate with Liao to win the year-end elections for the pan-blue camp.
Shrugging off Chin's comments, Liao said the KMT had been making every effort to facilitate unity in the pan-blue camp.
He promised to monitor the situation in the five cities and counties where the parties remain divided, and seek further cooperation with PFP in order to win the elections.
Meanwhile, the integration of the pan-green camp seemed to be going more smoothly.
With the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) nominee for the Keelung mayoral election, Wang Tuoh (
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