The Taipei District Court yesterday began hearing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taipei mayoral candidate Su Tseng-chang’s (蘇貞昌) lawsuit to invalidate the Taipei City mayoral election result, one of three lawsuits the party filed last week to invalidate the elections for the mayors of three special municipalities.
Neither Su nor his rival, Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌), attended the hearing.
The DPP believes Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) campaign teams manipulated the election-eve shooting of KMT Central Committee member Sean Lien (連勝文) in their candidates’ favor.
Lien was shot in the face while taking part in an evening rally for Chen Hung-yuan (陳鴻源), a KMT candidate for New Taipei City councilor.
Su’s attorney, Hsu hui-feng (許惠峰), told the court that Hau’s camp had exaggerated Lien’s condition after the shooting, giving incorrect information to the public, which had influenced voters.
Hsu said members of the KMT’s campaign teams either hinted at rallies or on TV shows that the DPP was behind the shooting, which also affected the elections.
The court requested that both sides prepare more evidence for the hearing.
The DPP also filed suit over the results of the New Taipei City (新北市) and Greater Taichung mayoral elections.
Greater Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (胡志強) won by 2.2 percent of the vote, aided in part by the incident, DPP supporters said.
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