
AI-generated summary
The Taipei mayoral election has entered a critical stage. The current Kuomintang mayor Chiang Wanan has been questioned on many issues including the controversy over his son's exchange student, campus food safety issues, rat infestations, flooding disasters and the city government's blunders. Democratic Progressive Party candidate Shen Boyang continued to speak out through online platforms, gradually increasing his popularity and support.
2026/09/15 07:24
Mr. 486 (right) supports Shen Boyang. (Photo taken from Mr. 486’s Facebook page)
[Reporter Lin Nangu/Reporting from Taipei] The Taipei mayoral election is heating up. The current mayor Chiang Wanan has been faced with many controversies such as his son's exchange student, campus food safety, rat infestation, flooding, and the city government's blunder. The Democratic Progressive Party's Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang has continued to enter the different temperatures, setting off online discussions.
Group buying e-commerce celebrity "Mr. 486" Chen Yanchang recently published an article analyzing whether Shen Boyang has a chance to be elected mayor of Taipei. He pointed out that there are about 340,000 to 370,000 free votes outside the blue and green parties as the key to victory. He also put forward 7 most important suggestions, emphasizing that what Shen Boyang needs most at the moment is not Popularity, for example, allows voters to believe that "it is safe to hand over Taipei to Shen Boyang." At the same time, he warned not to turn the election into "a gathering of people who hate Chiang Wanan." He also pointed out that the real turnaround situation should become: "Chiang Wanan is not very bad, but Shen Boyang may make Taipei better."
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Mr. 486 once again spoke excitedly on the evening of the 14th, revealing that he went to the supermarket to pick up a package a few days ago. There were two Abeis from other provinces in front of him waiting to check out. One of them, Abei, swiped his phone and said to the person next to him: "Hey, you went to watch the episode where Wang Weizhong visited Shen Boyang. I didn't expect that Shen Boyang is really good."
Mr. 486, who was standing behind with a package, heard this and suddenly felt that this election was really different. "The episode where Wang Weizhong interviewed Shen Boyang exceeded 1.48 million views in two days after it was released. What is really important is not the 1.48 million, but that it was a program watched by supporters of the blue camp. Someone even left a message below saying that he had voted for the Kuomintang in the past, and this time he started to consider voting for Shen Boyang."
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AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Shen Boyang will gain more support from middle voters in the last two weeks before the election
Likely · Within weeks
Free tickets other than blue and green will become the key factor in determining the outcome.
Very likely · Within weeks

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The article pointed out that Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan's team involved in the "three pats" of making decisions, patting his chest to express his position, and patting his butt and walking away, and the "four styles" of formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance. It questioned the lack of investigation and research in his decision-making, the establishment of smoking areas in the name of a smoke-free city, and the installation of sky-high umbrellas by cutting down trees. It also questioned the authenticity of his American lawyer qualifications and called on the judicial and national security agencies to intervene in the investigation.

Shen Boyang, the Taipei mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, was interviewed by Wang Weizhong. The number of views of the video exceeded 1.9 million within 4 days of its release, which is much higher than the 280,000 views accumulated by the current mayor Chiang Wanan's interview on the same program in 2022. The gap is more than 1.62 million, triggering heated discussions among netizens and the response of party deputy secretary-general He Bowen.

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