With the Dec. 1 elections approaching, the DPP was out in full force yesterday, including Premier Chang Chun-hsiung (
To win over more votes in Taiwan's east-coast region, the home of a large Taiwanese aboriginal community, Chang headed his campaign group towards Hualien Friday evening. He campaigned for the party's commissioner hopeful, You Ying-lung (
The DPP is eager to win over Hualien in the county's commissioner and legislative elections as it is one of two local governments that the DPP has never won in the past.
The commissioner hopeful, You, however, is in trouble since his campaigners were accused of vote-buying last week.
You held a press conference immediately before Chang's arrival, where he denied the allegations.
Chang did not comment on the issue during a fund-raising dinner attended by 4,000 local supporters.
You is considered the ideal candidate to help the DPP win over Hualien County, and the premier's second wife Chu A-ying (朱阿英) also appeared at his rally Monday.
During the campaign drive, Chang accused the Legislative Yuan of freezing budgets for local construction projects and appealed to voters to support the DPP's candidates in order to help the government operate smoothly.
Meanwhile, the DPP's Youth Development Department held a press conference yesterday, appealing to students to go back to their hometowns to vote.
According to two surveys done by media organizations in June, about 50 percent of college students support the DPP. For this reason, the DPP believes that students' votes will be significant in the election results.
"The younger generation has been involved in Taiwan's democratic progress, and we hope that they can keep supporting candidates with reform ideologies in these elections," said Hsiao Bi-khim (
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