More than 100 candidates from various pan-green groups have joined forces to establish an election platform known as the “Taiwan Independence Alliance,” ahead of the final weeks of campaigning before the Nov. 29 elections.
Alliance head convener Tsay Ting-kuei (蔡丁貴), 908 Taiwan Republic Campaign chairman Peter Wang (王獻極) and other alliance leaders urged voters to support the alliance’s slate of 102 candidates, who are mostly vying for county and city councilor positions.
At press conference in Taipei on Wednesday, Tsay called on voters to cast ballots for pro-Taiwanese identity candidates and to boot out what he called “the colonial regime of the Chinese Nationalist Party” (KMT) and “put the fraudulent entity of ‘the Republic of China in Taiwan’ into the dustbin of history.”
“All the polls indicate the majority of Taiwanese do not identify as Chinese. It is the public’s aspiration to live in an independent Taiwan. We can use ballots to get rid of this inept, corrupt KMT government led by incompetent [President] Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九),” said Tsay, who also is the director of the Alliance of Referendum for Taiwan.
The 102 candidates are mainly from the Democratic Progressive Party. There are some from the Taiwan Solidarity Union and Taiwanese National Party, while others have no affiliation and one in Miaoli County, Lin Yi-fang (林一方), represents the environmentalist Tree Party.
Wang said voters must seize the elections’ golden opportunity to show the world that Taiwanese want to join the UN as citizens of a new nation and as equal partners in the international community.
Along with Tsay, Wang and other veterans of the street protest movement, there were some young faces in the alliance, such as Restoration of Taiwan Social Justice (台左維新) deputy convener Wu Jui-yen (吳濬彥), who is in his mid-20s.
“Many young people got involved in the Sunflower movement earlier this year,” Wu said. “So they got to know more about the many crises Taiwan is facing, and the dark, malicious forces pervading in the government and in the political arena.”
Wu said he will promote the 102 candidates through social media.
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