As parties finalized more nominees for the year-end mayoral and county commissioner elections, both the People First Party (PFP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) said yesterday that they were looking into cooperating to achieve optimal results.
"The KMT has already set the rules for its nomination procedures. After the party's nominees have been decided and have begun their campaigns, we will work with the PFP and the New Party. We hope to establish a joint pan-blue system to determine [the pan-blue camp's] candidates for the mayoral and commissioner elections," KMT Secretary-General Lin Feng-cheng (林豐正) said at the party's headquarters yesterday.
At its weekly policy meeting yesterday, the KMT formally agreed on 10 candidates to nominate to the year-end elections.
The 10 candidates are Legislator Chou Hsi-wei (周錫瑋) for Taipei County commissioner, Ilan City Mayor Lu Kou-hua (呂國華) for commissioner in Ilan County, Legislator Cho Po-yuan (卓伯源) for Changhua County commissioner, Legislator Hsu Shu-po (許舒博) for Yunlin County commissioner, former legislator Chen Jung-shen (陳榮盛) for Tainan City mayor, incumbent Cheng Jung-chin (鄭永金) for Hsinchu County commissioner, Legislator Huang Min-hui (黃敏惠) for Chiayi mayor, Legislator Kuo Tien-tsai (郭添財) for Tainan County commissioner, incumbent Hsieh Shen-shan (謝深山) for Hualien County commissioner and Makung Mayor Wang Kan-fa (王乾發) for Penghu County commissioner.
A step ahead of the KMT, the PFP announced on Tuesday seven of the candidates it is nominating for the year-end polls.
The seven nominees include the incumbent Commissioner Chen Hsueh-sheng (
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