The Taipei mayor election political meeting will be held today at 14:00. The political views of 6 candidates including Shen Boyang and Jiang Wanan will be compared.

Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan and Democratic Progressive Party Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang. (File photo)

The Taipei City Election Commission will hold the first public political statement for the mayoral election at 2 p.m. today. There will be a total of 6 candidates. Each candidate will have 30 minutes to argue, and there will be no cross-examination session.

According to the schedule of the Beijing Municipal Election Committee, the press conference is divided into three periods, with two candidates speaking each: from 2:05 to 3:06 p.m., No. 3 Shen Boyang and No. 6 Tang Xinmin will speak; from 3:10 to 4:11, No. 4 Xiao Wenqian and No. 5 Jiang Wanan will speak; from 4:15 to 5:16, No. 1 Guo Xi and No. 2 Lin Zhicheng will speak.

The Taipei City Election Committee stated that the mayoral and councilor elections will be held in one round at public political opinion presentations, which will be broadcast live through the public channel of the Taipei City Cable TV System (Channel 3) and the YouTube video platform.

The public political opinion briefings for the mayoral election are scheduled for today and 2 p.m. on the 21st, while the public political opinion briefings for the council member elections will be held from the afternoon of the 18th to the 20th and the 23rd to the 25th, according to each electoral district.