Kaohsiung Mayor’s Public Political Opinion Conference》Ke Zhien plays the economic card and questions Lai Ruilong’s political donation controversy

Ke Zhien proposed the industrial vision and also questioned Lai Ruilong. (Photo by reporter Li Huizhou)

The 2026 Kaohsiung mayoral election public political statement was held at 2 pm today (14th). Kuomintang Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Ke Zhien first proposed a plan to revitalize Kaohsiung's economy, and then changed the subject and questioned Democratic Progressive Party candidate Lai Ruilong's political donations.

Ke Zhien held a tablet and explained his economic policies without reading the draft, including proposing to eliminate the urban-rural gap, promote a 24-hour Dagang Airport, traditional industry revitalization fund, and will continue to develop AI and semiconductor industry policies under Mayor Chen Qimai.

She also raised three major questions to Lai Ruilong. She questioned that he could not answer her questions and could only use "smear" and "handle it according to the law" as excuses, saying that he must explain why Clouded Leopard's 3 million yuan was broken into parts and came into your political donation through different methods. Is there any conflict of interest in the process? In terms of employment, whenever Lai's support club president has any problems, he will immediately cut them off. For example, when former minister Xu Mingchun was appointed as the president of the labor support association, the issue of her using the employment security fund has not been resolved. The president of the preschool education support association was implicated in the principal of a kindergarten that abused children. The president of the pet support association was actually involved in a case where the director of the Animal Protection Department drank flower wine.

She questioned whether Lai Ruilong didn't know about employing people. The leader of the new trend must make use of these people, including you who said that you are the son of labor, but you dare not vote against Laizhu, and you dare not say NO even if you give workers five days off. Lai will always hold up the flag of resisting the China National Security Council. Don’t forget in your thesis that your visit to the mainland was a very pleasant experience. After changing people and heads, it will always be a "change" position. She said that we can't go back, so we can't go back to the road of new trend restoration.