Vice President Annette Lu (
Since early last week, Lu has been urging her own party to carry out reforms in order to make it more competitive. Lu mentioned that recent scandals involving the DPP have seriously damaged its image.
On Monday evening, in an interview with a news program produced by Formosa Television, Lu predicted that the pan-blue camp would win the election as a whole, because it had nominated more candidates for county councilors and township representatives than the DPP.
Yesterday Lu participated in campaign activities in Sanchung City (
Lu reiterated that the DPP, as a party that is only 19 years old, would lose Saturday's competition because the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has roots throughout the country that go back more than 50 years.
"No matter what, after the election, the DPP should pay more attention to designing strategies for reform," Lu said.
Lu said that Saturday's elections, which combine polls for local chiefs, county councilors and township representatives, was a reform designed by the DPP to reduce the frequency of elections.
However, Lu said that the DPP should come up with a better way to groom local politicians so that it can ensure a new generation of strong party leadership.
Lu said that the election will be a struggle between the "Taiwan spirit" and "China power," and urged voters not to give up the right to vote, which allows them to decide the nation's future.
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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Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching