Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊) and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Huang Chun-ying (黃俊英) were summoned for questioning by prosecutors yesterday for a lawsuit in which Huang accused Chen of violating the Election and Recall Law (公職人員選舉罷免法).
Huang said Chen's camp employed "dirty tricks" by ordering people to take part in vote-buying and then shifting the blame to his camp in an attempt to discredit him.
In court yesterday, Chen told prosecutors that the KMT should offer her an apology for claiming her camp fabricated a vote buying story and that she was the mastermind behind it.
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Kaohsiung District Prosecutors' Office spokesman Chung Chung-hsiao (鍾忠孝) yesterday told the press that the evidence they had did not indicate whether Huang or Chen were involved in the vote buying scandal.
Some Huang supporters, however, were suspected of vote buying for Huang on their own initiative, Chung said.
Chung said Ku Hsin-ming (古鋅酩), who rented buses to transport Huang's supporters to an election-eve rally, admitted paying voters NT$500 (US$15) to vote for Huang.
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