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BackKMT New Taipei mayor candidate Li Sichuan and Speaker Jiang Genhuang set up a joint campaign. Zheng Liwen supported and criticized Su Qiaohui
KMT New Taipei mayor candidate Li Sichuan and Speaker Jiang Genhuang set up a joint campaign. Zheng Liwen supported and criticized Su Qiaohui
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KMT New Taipei mayor candidate Li Sichuan and Speaker Jiang Genhuang set up a joint campaign. Zheng Liwen supported and criticized Su Qiaohui

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  • KMT Chairman Zheng Liwen attended the founding meeting of the joint campaign between New Taipei City mayoral candidate Li Sichuan and Speaker Jiang Genhuang.
  • She supported Li Sichuan as the only candidate who can continue Hou Youyi and Jiang Genhuang's municipal achievements.
  • She also criticized DPP candidate Su Qiaohui for relying solely on her background.

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Why It Matters

The New Taipei City mayoral election will be held in the near future. The current mayor Hou Youyin will not seek re-election. The KMT has a campaign team composed of Li Sichuan and Speaker Jiang Genhuang. Zheng Liwen personally supports the election. At the same time, he criticized the DPP candidate Su Qiaohui for relying solely on his background and lack of substantial political achievements.

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KMT New Taipei Mayor candidate Li Sichuan and Speaker Jiang Genhuang have established a joint campaign, and KMT Chairman Zheng Liwen came to support the campaign. In her speech, Zheng praised Mayor Hou Youyi and Jiang Genhuang for creating unbreakable municipal achievements, and only Li Sichuan could continue to improve. She also secretly criticized DPP candidate Su Qiaohui for "no longer pretending to be a princess" and splitting her father, former Chief Executive Su Tseng-chang, and President Lai Ching-te for votes. Zheng warned that the blue camp was only slightly ahead, and called on voters to get rid of the myth of "guaranteed election" and to go out to vote and canvass vigorously.

In her speech, Zheng Liwen pointed out that Li Sichuan rushed to pay her respects first because of the important time. She praised the neat lineup and praised former Minister of the Interior Li Hongyuan as an outstanding talent; she emphasized that today is a good day, and the services and construction of the local Xinzhuang not only follow Local consideration also reflects the needs of voters, and in New Taipei City, because of the joint efforts of Jiang Genhuang and Hou Youyi, Hou Dongfang has been able to see undefeated, unchallenged, and diamond-level municipal achievements in the past eight years. She believes that these 8-year record may never be surpassed or broken.

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Zheng Liwen said that this good result needs to be continued and upgraded. New Taipei City is already the locomotive of Taiwan's development, so it cannot pause or retreat, but must move forward with all its strength. Therefore, there is no second best candidate, Li Sichuan. The only Li Sichuan who is most familiar with New Taipei City can shoulder the responsibility and continue to upgrade.

Zheng Liwen bluntly said that New Taipei City's tradition is that the mayor and speaker should find people who are "very good at doing things", rather than looking for people who are dedicated to bluffing, deceiving or smooth talk. Li Sichuan is a real man who "can do but not talk". He is shy even if he is praised even if he sweats. He often suffers the most in elections. On the other hand, there are some people who are very good at elections. They are softer than anyone else and can talk better than anyone else, but the outside world knows their background. "A princess is a princess, no matter how hard she pretends to be." If New Taipei is handed over to such a person, the central government will look ugly. When the time comes to elect him, he will just say "Oh, what will you do if I am elected?"

Zheng Liwen went on to criticize that the Kuomintang is honest and works hard, but its efforts are often harvested. The DPP is first-rate in grabbing credit, but when it comes to municipal government, services and construction, the Kuomintang is definitely first-rate. It was also the Kuomintang that created TSMC. She cited Xinzhuang's 300-year cultural heritage and the construction of a sub-city center as examples, affirming Li Hongyuan's professional planning and Hou Youyi's execution, and exclaimed that after Hou Youyi, only the world's number one Li Sichuan can continue to achieve results.

Cheng Lai-wen said that this year's election was colder than four years ago, and the most worrying thing was the low turnout. She asked supporters in the audience to "don't tell me that the Speaker is stable and Li Sichuan is stable." If the votes were not cast, it would all be lies.

Zheng Liwen pointed out that her opponent was very shrewd and flexible and good at elections. He had neither his father Su Zhenchang nor Lai Qingde around him. He deliberately stayed far away and cut them off. He knew that "Dean Su and President Lai had no votes in New Taipei," so he chose one person to vote. Zheng warned that the current polls are very close and the KMT is only slightly ahead. She must not be careless. She tried her best to ask the villagers to go out to vote on the voting day. She also solicited ten or even hundreds of votes by herself. She tried her best to urge and count votes, and supported Jiang Genhuang's re-election with a high number of votes and Li Sichuan's successful election as the mayor of New Taipei City.

What to Watch

AI outlook — possibilities, not facts

  • Li Sichuan will win the election

    Likely · Within weeks

  • Jiang Genhuang will be re-elected as Speaker with a high vote

    Likely · Within weeks

Open Questions

  • If Li Sichuan is elected, what specific municipal policies will he continue?
  • How can the KMT boost turnout to avoid a slight lead being reversed?
  • Will Su Qiaohui respond to Zheng Liwen's "princess" criticism?

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