Former vice-premier Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has not decided whether to join Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Frank Hsieh's (謝長廷) campaign as an aide, Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) said yesterday.
Wang said that Tsai called him after she learned from TV reports that he had commented on her relationship with Hsieh's camp.
He was responding to a report in yesterday's Chinese-language Apple Daily which quoted an anonymous source as saying that Tsai had agreed to be director-general of Hsieh's campaign headquarters in Taipei.
"[Tsai] told me that she hasn't accepted Hsieh's invitation and still needed to think about the offer. She said she asked Hsieh's camp to clarify the offer," Wang said.
The United Evening News reported yesterday that Tsai said Hsieh had tried to talk her into taking the job but that she hadn't given him an answer.
The paper quoted Tsai as saying that she was about to go abroad and was very busy and therefore told Hsieh she would get back to him after she returned.
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Lee said communication with Tsai was smooth.
"We are very familiar with each other. We speak on the telephone very often," he said, urging the media not to over-interpret the Apple Daily story.
Additional reporting by Flora Wang
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