The Kaohsiung Mayor’s official political meeting will be held today. In addition to the blue and green, the other 3 people’s backgrounds can be viewed at once.

The public political opinion presentation meeting for the 2026 Kaohsiung mayoral election will be held at 2 pm today (14th). Each of the five mayoral candidates will have two rounds of political opinion presentation time, for a total of 24 minutes per person. There will be no media questions or cross-examination. In addition to the blue and green candidates, the backgrounds of Wang Zhaomin and Hong Fanglong, who have no party membership, and Zhang Jing of the Judicial Reform Party, have also aroused curiosity from the outside world.

A total of five people have registered to run for the Kaohsiung mayoral election, which is the record for the most people to run since the merger of counties and cities. They are No. 1 Zhang Jing (Judicial Reform Party), No. 2 Wang Zhaomin (no party membership), No. 3 Ke Zhien (KMT), No. 4 Hong Fanglong (no party membership), and No. 5 Lai Ruilong (Democratic Progressive Party). The order of speeches at today's public political meeting will be decided by drawing lots before the political meeting.

The much-anticipated Lai Ruilong and Ke Zhien will once again be on the same stage. The two will have their first TV debate on October 30. At that time, they will compete on the "Financial Planning Law", North-South resource allocation, political donations and other issues. Policies will be explained to voters through a public political meeting today, but there will be no media questions or cross-examination.

Wang Zhaomin, who is less well-known, is 63 years old and is the head of a construction company. He has participated in the 2024 presidential election. A few days ago, he held a political propaganda meeting at Shouting Palace in Okayama. Despite the fact that there was only a single-digit audience in the audience, he still insisted on finishing his political views for 68 minutes.

Hong Fanglong is also 63 years old and graduated from the Department of Environmental Engineering of National Chung Hsing University. He was worried about social development and decided to run for mayor to express his ideas. He called for politics to be responsibilities and all political opinions to be tested. If not, there should be a punishment mechanism.

70-year-old lawyer Zhang Jing is the chairman of the Judicial Reform Party and has served as a judge and prosecutor. She was once entrusted by Peng Wenzheng to file a lawsuit against Tsai Ing-wen to confirm the non-existence of her doctoral thesis. He believes that the blue and green parties have taken turns in power for a long time, and have already tied judicial resources to political and business relations, and cannot tolerate a third force with real supervision. For the survival and dignity of the small party, he decided to fight for the mayor of Kaohsiung.

The Gao City Election Committee pointed out that the public political opinion presentation for the mayoral election will take place in two rounds of expressing political opinions. Each candidate will be given 12 minutes for each round, with a total of 24 minutes for the two rounds. The public can watch it on the Kaohsiung City Cable TV public channel CH3 or the Kaohsiung City Election Committee YouTube.