Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Acting Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄) yesterday announced that he will resign his positions as acting chairman and vice chairman to ensure a fair competition in the chairperson by-election next month.
Wu made the remarks yesterday after his rival in the by-election, KMT Legislator Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱), urged him to resign on Friday.
"I agreed that I should enter the by-election as a party member," Wu said while attending the funeral of late Keelung mayor Hsu Tsai-li (
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KMT Secretary General Wu Den Yih (
Hung praised Wu Poh-hsiung's decision to resign and said he would compete in a "gentlemanly" manner with the acting chairman.
Wu Poh-hsiung in turn pledged not to attack his competitor during the campaign period.
"The KMT can't afford any divisions now. I will not criticize my rival in the election and I will give my full support to the elected chairman if I am defeated," he said.
KMT regulations state that Wu Poh-hsiung and Hung will need to collect signatures from at least 3 percent of party members between last Friday and March 18 in order to register in the by-election.
The by-election will be held on April 7 and an inauguration ceremony for the new chairman will be held on April 11.
During a trip to Yunlin County yesterday, former KMT chairman and presidential hopeful Ma Ying-jeou (
Ma, who has recently been spending his weekends in the south to garner grassroots support, said he planned to make frequent visits to the poor and the disabled to address social issues.
Ma later attended the funeral of legendary puppet master Huang Hai-tai (
"I've always tried to play that role and I will continue to do so in future," Ma said.
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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