Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Secretary-General King Pu-tsung (金溥聰) began organizing the party’s campaign for legislative by-elections and special municipality elections next year, and promised to improve the KMT’s performance in future elections as he took over as secretary-general on Wednesday.
King visited the party’s Taoyuan branch yesterday to discuss the upcoming by-election with party candidate Chen Li-ling (陳麗玲).
The by-election will be held on Jan. 9 to fill the vacancy left by former KMT legislator John Wu (吳志揚), who won the Taoyuan County Commissioner election on Dec. 5.
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Two other counties — Taitung and Taichung — will hold legislative by-elections on Jan. 9 and legislative by-elections will be held in Hualien, Hsinchu and Taichung counties later next year.
“I am seeking a deeper understanding of the by-elections, and the most important thing is to unite the party and organize the campaign to win the elections coming up in the near future,” he said.
King confirmed that he had visited KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) at his presidential residence on Wednesday night to discuss the by-elections, but declined to provide details.
Ma invited King to return from the US and take over the position after the party suffered what has been perceived as a significant setback in local government elections on Dec. 5.
Ma said he expected King to help the party win the elections and solve party assets problems.
When asked about a possible meeting between Ma and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), King said Ma had already expressed his willingness to debate an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with Tsai, and said he would push for the meeting.
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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