In an effort to encourage youth to participate in politics and contribute their talents to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the party yesterday announced a plan to establish a youth committee.
In the wake of the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) establishment of a youth corps, the DPP yesterday held a news conference to beckon young people to participate in its own organization for promising political neophytes.
Many DPP legislators attended the news conference to support the formation of the new youth organization and cited themselves as examples to prove the DPP's appreciation of young people's potential and ability.
PHOTO: SUNG CHIH-HSIUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
"I was only 26 years old when I served as the director of the DPP's department of international affairs in 1996. I myself benefited from the DPP's respect for young people's originality and capability," DPP Legislator Hsiao Bi-khim (
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DPP Legislator Cheng Yun-peng (
"The DPP is facing a crisis in that the party's elites are getting old and we need more new faces to join us," Cheng said.
DPP Chairman Yu Shyi-kun said the formation of the youth committee was one of his campaign promises in the chairmanship election and is intended to inject new blood into the party in order to boost reforms.
Hsu Chien-jung (許建榮), deputy director of the department of youth development, said the DPP will select 35 members for the new committee, which will be divided into three sub-groups geared toward young political workers, general youth and college students. Young people who are between the ages of 18 and 35 are welcome to apply, Hsu said.
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