Independent Taipei mayoral candidate Vivian Huang (黃珊珊) yesterday launched her election campaign headquarters and revealed her campaign team officials.
Huang, a former Taipei deputy mayor, said Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) would serve as the headquarters’ honorary chairman, while former People First Party vice chairman Chang Chao-hsiung (張昭雄) and former Taipei City Government secretary-general Chang Jer-yang (張哲揚) would serve as honorary vice chairman.
Former minister of the interior Lee Hong-yuan (李鴻源) would serve as policy chief consultant, Huang said.
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Taipei City Government policy adviser Ben Jai (翟本喬) would be chief strategy officer, while former Centers for Disease Control director-general and former National Yang-Ming University president Steve Kuo (郭旭崧) would be support group president.
Huang said if she is elected as mayor, she would overcome the fight between the pan-blue and pan-green camps.
She said she would emphasize social reconciliation and form a coalition government comprising talented people from different backgrounds, and put people’s well-being first.
Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times
Her campaign team features young people who are open-minded, communicative and creative, Huang said, urging Taipei residents to become her honorary consultants for municipal administration.
Ko said Huang has been a city councilor for 21 years and her performance is recognized by city councilors across party lines.
She is proven to have good execution skills and she put city residents’ well-being above party benefits when she served as deputy mayor for nearly three years, Ko said, adding that he believes Huang is ready to become mayor.
Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times
The event was held at Taipei Municipal University of Education, attended by Huang’s family members, several former government officials and hundreds of supporters.
However, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Yu Shu-hui (游淑慧) asked whether the university contravened its regulations by renting out the Chungcheng Hall on its campus for Huang’s political event.
Yu also asked whether Huang still has influence in the Taipei City Government and had been granted privilege to rent the venue.
The university said the event’s public relations firm rented the venue according to the school’s procedures.
University personnel asked the Taipei Department of Education about related regulations after finding out that the venue was being rented for an election event, it said, adding that it would not allow any political party to hold activities in other parts of the campus.
However, while the university adheres to the principle of administrative neutrality, its personnel did not notice that its rules for facility rentals had been revised in 2020, stipulating that the university should refuse hosting any political activity, it said.
The university’s administration would take extra care to avoid similar incidents, it said.
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