Hou underestimates voters
The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) presidential candidate, New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜), praised the New Taipei City Police Department for solving recent shooting cases in a timely fashion.
He said that New Taipei City is a place with a high level of public safety, whereas Kaohsiung and Tainan are not.
Hou also accused the governing party of mismanagement of guns and demanded that the central government stop finding fault with local governments.
Tainan City Government spokeswoman Sabrina Tien (田玲瑚) and Democratic Progressive Party spokesman Cho Kuan-ting (卓冠廷) disagreed with Hou, asking him to look to himself more, rather than blaming others.
Within a month, eight attacks involving guns have occurred in New Taipei City. As the mayor, is Hou doing anything to address the situation? Does he still care for the people of New Taipei City?
It should also be mentioned that the “88-bullet shooting” case in Tainan was closely related to the KMT.
Hou used to be the president of Central Police University and because of this, he has claimed that he is an expert in public safety, but a Global Views Monthly magazine survey found that the approval rating of New Taipei City’s public safety has been declining year-on-year. This shows that Hou’s criticism of Kaohsiung and Tainan is groundless and the public disagrees with his appraisal.
Among the three presidential candidates, Hou is trailing in the polls. This is not surprising at all. He is running a presidential campaign when he should be focused on his job as mayor.
He has yet to clarify his position on a number of important issues, such as cross-strait relations and nuclear power.
Hou’s stance has always been ambiguous and self-contradictory. What he has done is only to win votes. He is finding out that voters were not born yesterday.
Chi An-hsiu
Taipei
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