Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Secretary-General King Pu-tsung (金溥聰) yesterday said the party would announce its nominees for December’s special municipality elections in two phases.
KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) said the party would announce its nominees in March or April. King said the party would finalize the candidate list sooner, and the list would be announced in two phases.
“We will explain the nomination mechanism in a short time, and we will finalize the nomination of candidates considering all circumstances,” King said.
King said the party would adopt a flexible nomination process. Coordination, opinion polls or polls plus party member voting could all be adopted as a means to finalize the nominees.
Ma earlier said the party would conduct opinion polls to select candidates even though officials have been recruited to select a list of nominations.
As to the upcoming legislative by-election on Feb. 27, King said the party would step up its campaigning efforts by inviting the four candidates to attend a central standing committee meeting on Wednesday to solicit support from party members.
Ma will start another round of by-election campaigning during the Lunar New Year holidays by visiting Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Miaoli and Hualien counties, where the by-election will be held.
King arranged frequent campaigning events for Ma after the KMT suffered a significant defeat in January’s legislative by-elections. Ma did not campaign for party legislators until the day before the elections last month.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) grabbed all three seats in last month’s legislative by-elections. DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) promised to lead the party and take all four seats in the upcoming by-elections.
King said the pan-blue camp needed to join in the election efforts in order to beat the DPP and win the elections.
The KMT remained upbeat about winning the by-election in Taoyuan, with the county traditionally seen as a pan-blue stronghold. In Hsinchu, the KMT sought to solve a dispute between local factions that support Hsinchu County Commissioner Chiu Ching-chun (邱鏡淳) or former commissioner Cheng Yung-ching (鄭永金) after the party nominated Cheng’s brother, Cheng Yung-tan (鄭永堂), to run in the by-election.
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