The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) on Wednesday released its legislator-at-large nominees for the Jan. 13 elections, with former Taipei deputy mayor Vivian Huang (黃珊珊) topping the 34-person list for the elections on Jan. 13.
Under Taiwan’s electoral system, the number of legislator-at-large seats is prorated according to the number of party votes each party receives, with a threshold of 5 percent of all party votes cast.
Each party is entitled to submit a ranked list of 34 nominees for 34 at-large seats in the 113-seat legislature, which also has 73 seats elected from single-member legislative constituencies and six seats for indigenous candidates.
Photo: Lo Pei-de, Taipei Times
TPP Chairman and presidential nominee Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) told a news conference that Huang, who served as his deputy during his time as Taipei mayor and failed in a bid to succeed him last year, is an efficient worker.
Ko also praised the TPP’s No. 2 pick, Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌), a former New Power Party (NPP) legislator, for his work uncovering corruption while serving as a lawmaker.
Huang Kuo-chang last week resigned from the NPP, which he cofounded in 2015 and chaired from its inception to March 2019.
The party emerged from the 2014 Sunflower movement, a student-led protest against a cross-strait service trade agreement being negotiated under the then-Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government and China.
Surrogacy advocate Chen Chao-tzu (陳昭姿) was third on the TPP’s list.
Asked about reports that Hon Hai Precision Industry Co founder Terry Gou (郭台銘), an independent presidential aspirant, was offered the top position on the list, as Ko has been attempting to unify opposition forces behind a joint presidential ticket, Ko said Gou declined the offer.
There had been reports that China-born Xu Chunying (徐春鶯), who gained Republic of China citizenship in 2000, would be on the list, but she declined the nomination.
Li Zhenxiu (李貞秀), another Chinese married to a Taiwanese, was 15th on the list.
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