Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) members recently launched an online promotional campaign calling on supporters to display slogans endorsing the TPP’s presidential ticket at every intersection along Provincial Highway No. 1 on Monday next week, in an effort to generate momentum leading up to the presidential and legislative elections.
As the Jan. 13 elections loom, TPP councilors from Taipei and New Taipei City, joined by party volunteers, issued an online rallying cry for supporters to showcase homemade slogans endorsing TPP Chairman and presidential candidate Ko Wen-je (柯文哲).
TPP supporters are to gear up at 16 intersections along Provincial Highway No. 1, stretching from Taipei and Hsinchu City in the north, through Taichung in central Taiwan, to Kaohsiung in the south, the party said.
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TPP Taipei City Councilor Chen You-cheng (陳宥丞) on Monday said that more than 1,000 supporters have signed up for the one-hour rally.
Additionally, a pro-Ko group called the Little Grass Alliance is to hold a rally tomorrow.
The participants, organized into seven groups, are to start at different locations across Taipei and march to the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall to canvass, its Facebook page said.
As for Ko himself, whose polling numbers are lagging behind the Democratic Progressive Party’s and Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) presidential tickets, there is a possibility he could join supporters on the highway on New Year’s Day, after a planned talk in Taitung tomorrow, a TPP insider said.
A large-scale TPP campaign event is scheduled to take place on Ketagalan Boulevard in Taipei on the eve of the elections on Jan. 12.
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