In a sign that the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) nomination battle for the Taipei City mayoral election could become more crowded, former Taipei City deputy mayor Chen Shih-meng (陳師孟) is expected to announce tomorrow that he will join the fray.
This comes after an announcement on Monday by long-time DPP Taipei City councilor Chou Po-ya (周柏雅) that he too would vie for the party’s nomination in the capital.
RUSHING IN
PHOTO: HO YU-HUA, TAIPEI TIMES
Prospective DPP candidates for the five special municipalities holding elections in December have been rushing to get their names to a nomination team led by DPP Secretary-General Su Jia-chyuan (蘇嘉全) ahead of tomorrow’s deadline.
COMPETITION
Former Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) announced last Wednesday that he would forego a rumored presidential bid in 2012 to run for Taipei City mayor and is currently considered the party’s top contender.
While Chen and Chou are unlikely to be able to compete with Su in terms of media coverage, Chou said that the DPP should focus on training up-and-coming political figures such as himself rather than just focusing on senior party figures.
Meanwhile, speaking after a meeting with DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday afternoon, Chen reportedly told Tsai that he hoped to see Su battle rumored Chinese nationalist Party (KMT) candidate Vice-Premier Eric Chu (朱立倫) in the Sinbei City election.
All three nominees have said they will respect the party’s final nomination decision. DPP officials have said that they hope to decide on the Taipei, Sinbei and Taichung city candidates via dialogue rather than resorting to opinion polls. No timetable has been set.
An essay competition jointly organized by a local writing society and a publisher affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might have contravened the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例), the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said on Thursday. “In this case, the partner organization is clearly an agency under the CCP’s Fujian Provincial Committee,” MAC Deputy Minister and spokesperson Liang Wen-chieh (梁文傑) said at a news briefing in Taipei. “It also involves bringing Taiwanese students to China with all-expenses-paid arrangements to attend award ceremonies and camps,” Liang said. Those two “characteristics” are typically sufficient
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck about 33km off the coast of Hualien City was the "main shock" in a series of quakes in the area, with aftershocks expected over the next three days, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. Prior to the magnitude 5.9 quake shaking most of Taiwan at 6:53pm yesterday, six other earthquakes stronger than a magnitude of 4, starting with a magnitude 5.5 quake at 6:09pm, occurred in the area. CWA Seismological Center Director Wu Chien-fu (吳健富) confirmed that the quakes were all part of the same series and that the magnitude 5.5 temblor was
The brilliant blue waters, thick foliage and bucolic atmosphere on this seemingly idyllic archipelago deep in the Pacific Ocean belie the key role it now plays in a titanic geopolitical struggle. Palau is again on the front line as China, and the US and its allies prepare their forces in an intensifying contest for control over the Asia-Pacific region. The democratic nation of just 17,000 people hosts US-controlled airstrips and soon-to-be-completed radar installations that the US military describes as “critical” to monitoring vast swathes of water and airspace. It is also a key piece of the second island chain, a string of
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