Huang Jun-ying (黃俊英), KMT aspirant for Kaohsiung mayor, yesterday rejected allegations from a rival camp that his close ties to the TSU mean he is disloyal to his own party.
Aides of independent candidate Chang Po-ya (張博雅) made the allegations on Thursday, saying that TSU legislator Lo Chih-ming (羅志明) was in fact Huang's campaign strategist and that several KMT officials had met with TSU spiritual leader Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) last week before they went to Kaohsiung to campaign for Huang.
Huang denied the allegations and said he would quit if they were proven to be true.
Huang said he must vie for the support of people from other parties because he aims to become mayor of all Kaohsiung residents.
Huang said that he knows Lo from when Lo was deputy chief of the KMT's Kaohsiung branch office. But he said he stopped contacting Lo once Lo joined the "rainbow alliance," a group supporting Kaohsiung Mayor Frank Hsieh (
Negotiations within the opposition camp broke down on Wednesday following Chang's decision to wage her own campaign. She said she did not have faith in the selection process chosen by the pan-blue camp.
Chang accused James Chen (
Chang also said that pro-some DPP, underground radio stations had urged their audiences to fake support for Huang.
The polls were to be taken this week, but were canceled after Chang's withdrawal.
Chen, who was also one of the KMT officials identified by Chang's camp as having met with Lee, yesterday asked them to stop making what he called groundless remarks meant to smear the KMT.
Chen said he had not met with Lee, nor had he tried to interfere in the opinion polls.
Chen suggested that people visit Kaohsiung in person to survey the opinions of Kaohsiung residents, since they do not believe in polls.
Lo said yesterday that the negotiation system between the KMT and PFP broke down mainly because they were struggling against each other.
He said that people are now looking to blame someone for the problems and have targeted Huang, accusing him of being disloyal to the KMT.
Lo also said that the KMT and the PFP are extremely concerned about the success of the "rainbow alliance" in attracting a number of people from across party lines to their cause.
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