Saying that Taiwan's fathers have been under increasing stress under DPP rule these past three years, KMT Chairman Lien Chan (
"Today is Father's Day," said Lien, "yet more than 84 percent of fathers are worrying about losing their jobs as well as the ever-rising amounts they have to pay for their children's education."
"We all have had enough. In a bid to return prosperity to Taiwan, everybody should support the KMT-PFP's joint presidential bid next year," said Lien at a press conference held yesterday at the alliance's headquarters.
The press conference was held to reveal the KMT-PFP alliance's presidential campaign logo -- two figures riding a tandem bicycle.
Lien said that the logo symbolized cooperation between the KMT and the PFP as they work together toward achieving victory in next March's presidential election.
The KMT and the PFP formed a political alliance in February and announced in April their joint bid to team up on a single presidential ticket for the election.
Lien will lead the alliance's ticket as the presidential candidate, with PFP Chairman James Soong (
Soong ran his own maverick campaign as an independent in the 2000 presidential election and obtained 36 percent of the vote while Lien, the KMT candidate, was in third place with 23 percent of the vote.
"Since [the logo] is a bicycle design, it also symbolizes that we will plant our feet firmly on solid ground as we work toward achieving our goal," Lien said.
"We will not shirk our responsibilities but willingly work hard for a better future for Taiwan," he said.
Wearing a T-shirt with the design of their campaign logo, Lien and Soong posed on a tandem bicycle as they chanted their campaign slogan: "Putting Taiwan first, reviving its prosperity," along with groups of pan-blue legislators.
Morale among members of the alliance was high as their nominee had just won a landslide victory in the Hualien commissioner by-election, beating the DPP candidate by more than 30,000 votes.
Lien said special meaning was attached to the campaign team's decision to reveal the Lien-Soong ticket's campaign logo on Father's Day.
"Fathers are not the only ones in Taiwan feeling worried; everyone is," Lien said.
"We therefore are willing to stage a second transfer of power [next year] through cooperation between the KMT and the PFP in order to bring back Taiwan's prosperity," he said.
Speaking after Lien, Soong pledged that both parties would work together to salvage Taiwan through not making empty promises but putting in substantial efforts.
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