President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) campaign office is organizing a student camp to be held next month in Greater Tainan to attract young people to his campaign.
The “Democratic Election” camp will be held from Aug. 12 to Aug. 14 at Sheng Mu Temple and focus on democracy and elections. Students aged between 18 and 30 are eligible to attend.
Ma and King Pu-tsung (金溥聰), the executive director of Ma’s campaign office, will attend and hold discussions with the students, said Ma Wei-kuo (馬瑋國), director of the new generation department at Ma’s campaign office.
“Every election provides a great opportunity to deepen Taiwan’s democracy. We want to attract votes from the younger generation via the camp and, more importantly, we are hoping that the camp will help young people discover their passion for public affairs,” she said.
The campaign office invited a group of young people to promote the camp yesterday. They wore costumes from the 1970s as they handed out pamphlets about the camp, while holding up a life-size replica of Republic of China founding father, Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙).
Ma Wei-kuo said the camp aimed to promote Sun’s belief in building a democratic society. The campaign office will use new media platforms to attract camp participants and urged eligible students to apply online at twbravo.blogspot.com.
The camp is the latest effort by the president’s re-election campaign to attract support from first-time voters who, studies show, are mostly undecided. Ma Ying-jeou has relied on younger staff members to boost his support through social-networking media, such as Facebook, and has been meeting university students in conferences for the past few months.
The president joined Google’s new social networking platform, Google+ on Tuesday and said he expected his page to attract friends who support Taiwan.
Campaign office spokesperson Lee Chia-fei (李佳霏) said social-networking media would continue to be a major campaign tool for the president to communicate with young people.
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