Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Secretary-General Su Jia-chyuan (蘇嘉全) yesterday acknowledged that he would be facing a tough task in Greater Taichung, one day after his confirmation as the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) candidate for the Nov. 27 special municipality election in the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) stronghold.
Speaking to reporters at a press conference, Su said he was honored to receive the DPP’s nomination and that he would “fight this election battle with all my heart.”
However, the former Pingtung County commissioner also said that if he won, it would probably mean that the DPP had won all five of the mayoral seats up for grabs.
The decision to let Su run in Greater Taichung in place of former Cabinet spokesperson Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍), the previous frontrunner for the DPP’s nomination, came over the weekend at the behest of DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文).
Lin backed out of the race last week and threw his support behind Su, following polls conducted by the party’s nomination team that showed Su had the best chance against Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (胡志強) of the KMT.
Party officials said they hoped Su’s agricultural experience, having served as Council of Agriculture chief, would appeal to the farmers of rural Taichung County, while another of his former postings as Minister of the interior would win him votes with law-and-order voters in Taichung City.
However, concerns have been raised on “parachuting” Su into the Taichung election, as he has no prior work experience in the area — allegations that Su dismissed, saying that he had an impressive record of government in Pingtung County.
“Look at [former Pingtung County commissioner and DPP Taipei City candidate] Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) and his excellent track record. I believe that I can do the same in Greater Taichung,” Su Jia-chyuan said.
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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