Deputy Legislative Speaker Tseng Yung-chuan (曾永權) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday said he would serve as President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) campaign manager for next month’s party chairmanship election.
Tseng said he would pick up a candidacy registration form tomorrow on behalf of Ma. The president will complete the registration process at the KMT headquarters on June 25.
“The campaign plans have been drawn up and we will use the legislative system to ask all party lawmakers to solicit support from party members,” he said.
Ma announced his candidacy for the chairmanship on Wednesday. Registration for the election opens tomorrow and the election is scheduled for July 26.
Tseng said Ma asked him on Wednesday to manage his campaign. Ma’s campaign would not exploit administrative resources, he said.
Tseng said Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) supported his decision to manage Ma’s campaign, which is unpaid work.
A campaign office will be set up at the site on Xinyi Road that Ma used for his presidential campaign, Tseng said.
In other developments, the Presidential Office yesterday dismissed allegations that Ma had spoken to guests in April about asking State Public Prosecutor-General Chen Tsung-ming (陳聰明) to step down.
The Chinese-language China Times reported that Ma said it was impossible to ask Chen to leave his position unless he violated a law or was impeached by the Control Yuan.
Presidential Office Public Affairs Department Director Tsai Chung-li (蔡仲禮) yesterday said Ma had not made any comments about Chen Tsung-ming.
Ma respected the judicial system and had no intention of trying to interfere via the Control Yuan, Tsai said.
The Supreme Prosecutor’s Office was censured by the Control Yuan in February over the Special Investigation Panel’s handling of the investigation into former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and his family.
One of the concerns was a shortage of manpower, while another was the decision not to ban Huang Fang-yen (黃芳彥), the former first family’s physician, from leaving the country.
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