The Central Election Commission yesterday announced that Taiwan’s local elections would be held on Nov. 28 next year.
The local elections, which take place every four years, select mayors and city councilors in the special municipalities of Taipei, New Taipei City, Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung, as well as commissioners, mayors, councilors, town chiefs and town representatives in the other 16 counties and county-level cities.
A public bulletin on next year's local elections would be released on Aug. 20 next year, before candidate registration opens from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4, the CEC said in a news release.
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The deadline for approving eligible candidates would be Oct. 16, and those in the electoral races would draw their ballot numbers on Oct. 23, the commission said.
Mayoral candidates running in the six special municipalities would present their policy platforms from Nov. 13 to 27, while those running to be special municipality councilors, county and county-level city mayors and councilors would be allowed to do the same from Nov. 18 to 27 next year.
The number of eligible voters would be announced by Nov. 24, it said.
According to the commission, the schedules for other candidates running in the elections, including heads of indigenous districts in the six special municipalities, would be decided by local election commissions
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