Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chu Chun-hsiao (朱俊曉), who lost to his Democratic Progressive Party rival Yu Tien (余天) in Saturday's legislative election, said yesterday that he would file a lawsuit to annul Yu's election.
"The police, through monitoring phone calls of borough wardens, discovered that some of the borough wardens supporting me were threatened," Chu told the Taipei Times in a telephone interview. "After the Central Election Commission makes public the official list of legislators-elect, I will file a lawsuit to annul Yu's election because of such campaign irregularities."
Chu declined to disclose more details about his allegations as "the police are conducting an investigation into the cases."
Yu, who received 75,212 votes, won by a margin of 1,926 votes in the election. Yu is a veteran singer and newcomer to politics, while Chu is a long-time politician and serving legislator.
The Chinese-language United Daily News reported on Wednesday that a borough warden, Chuang Chin-lung (
But Chuang's wife, Tsai Shih-chen (
Yu was not available for comment yesterday. However, a staff member at his campaign office said on condition of anonymity that Chu's allegations were "made up" to exact revenge.
Meanwhile, KMT candidate Wu Cherng-dean (
Wu said yesterday that he originally wanted to apply for a vote recount, but believed that a recount would not necessarily overturn the election result.
Wu said he did not believe the ballots had been miscounted, but that he lost because of vote-buying and would file a lawsuit.
Wu said he had heard that some candidates had handed out jewelry and cash worth between NT$3,000 and NT$5,000 to voters.
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