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Taiwan Quick Take: DPP to hold Kaohsiung vote

If no consensus is reached by May 27 on who the ruling Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) candidate should be in the year-end Kaohsiung mayoral election, the party will hold a primary May 28 to select one, Tsai Huang-liang (蔡煌瑯), director of the party's department of culture and information, said yesterday. Legislator Kuan Bi-ling (管碧玲) and Chen Chu (陳菊), former chief of the Council of Labor Affairs, have both registered to run in the primary and expressed their strong desire to represent the party in the election. However, former premier Frank Hsieh (謝長廷), an influential party member, has said that he supports acting Kaohsiung Mayor Yeh Chu-lan (葉菊蘭), and said that he would try his utmost to dissuade Kuan from running in the election if she wins the primary. Tsai said the DPP had not ceased in its efforts to resolve the matter for the sake of the unity of the party, noting if ongoing negotiations with the three hopefuls failed to produce a candidate by the end of next week, the party would go ahead with the primary as scheduled.

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