The Home Party, founded by key members of the former anti-President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) campaign, may nominate a presidential candidate if the party wins more than 5 percent of the vote for political parties during Saturday's legislative poll, campaign leader Shih Ming-teh (施明德) said yesterday.
Shih told a press conference that it was possible that former United Microelectronics Corp (
In the new "single district, two-vote" system, voters will be able to choose their preferred party in addition to voting for a legislative candidate. A party must win more than 5 percent of the vote to gain legislator-at-large seats.
PHOTO: LIU HSIN-DE, TAIPEI TIMES
Shih accused the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of threatening the survival of smaller parties by running advertisements aimed at boosting voter support for them on Saturday.
Saying that a "corrupt" DPP and a KMT that upholds "black gold" politics may become the only two parties that remain in the legislature after the legislative poll, Shih called on voters to support the Home Party instead.
"If, like me, you are worried about Taiwan being disrupted by the wrangling between the pan-blue and the pan-green camps, are you willing to vote for Taiwan's hope? This is our humble request," he says in the party's new commercial.
"I must warn the KMT and the DPP against trying to `kill off' the smaller parties," Shih said, adding that they should not to underestimate the power of smaller parties.
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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