The Taiwan Go Go Front is aiming to field candidates in all Taipei electoral districts to run for city councilor positions in the local elections in November.
New Power Party Chairwoman Claire Wang (王婉諭) yesterday outlined the plans to challenge all Taipei City Council seats, while she joined street campaign events supporting Wu Hsin-tai (吳欣岱), who represents the Taiwan Statebuilding Party in contesting seats in Taipei’s Neihu (內湖) and Nangang (南港) districts.
The two parties joined the Taiwan Obasang Political Equality Party and the Green Party Taiwan, as well as some independents, to form the alliance last year.
Photo: Tsai Kai-heng, Taipei Times
Talks on collaboration between the four parties began last year, as they all stand for progressive values and pro-Taiwan stances, Wang said, adding that “Taiwan needs to have a true ‘third force’ in the political landscape.”
“To serve as Taiwan’s true third force, this alliance must be pro-localization, have Taiwanese identity values, and must take pragmatic and rational actions for sincere and diligent oversight, and to act as checks and balances for the government,” Wang said.
“We have the responsibility to field the best choice for voters in each Taipei district. It is our promise that voters would have no regrets and no hesitation when they vote for candidates nominated by our alliance,” she added.
Wu, a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon, rejected criticism that her announced candidacy for the two districts in Taipei would split the pan-green camp and benefit the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), as former Democratic Progressive Party legislator Kao Chia-yu (高嘉瑜) is believed to be planning to run for the city council after losing her bid for re-election as legislator during the 2024 election.
“It is not a showdown between me and Kao. In the city council contest, there are several seats in which multiple candidates win in an electoral district; it is not a winner-takes-all district as in the legislative election,” she said.
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