"Liberty Times" and 6 other media jointly organized the Taipei mayoral election debate, Shen Boyang signed!

Shen Boyang has completed the signing and accepted the debate jointly organized by "Liberty Times" and other five media. (Provided by Shen Boyang Bidding)

First published at 14:11

Update time 15:57 (newly added China Television)

The Taipei mayoral election is crucial to the development direction of the capital in the next four years, and various policies of urban governance are closely linked to the daily lives of citizens. In response, six media outlets including Liberty Times, China Television, Taiwan Television, FTV, Mirror TV, and China Television issued a joint statement today, inviting Taipei mayoral candidates Shen Boyang of the Democratic Progressive Party and Jiang Wanan of the Kuomintang to participate in a joint media television debate. Shen Boyang had earlier signed his consent to participate in the joint debate in duplicate.

Shen Boyang said that he received the consent form for the debate today. "I, Shen Boyang, agree to participate in activities organized by TTV, China Television, FTV, Liberty Times, Mirror TV or other TV stations interested in hosting the Taipei mayoral election debate. I hope that representatives from each camp will negotiate the venue and other details as soon as possible to set an example of good municipal debate." He quickly signed it and showed it off in front of the camera.

The joint statement including this newspaper also mentioned four principles for the debate. The first is to protect citizens' right to know and expand the breadth of public dialogue; second, adhere to the principle of equality and objectivity, and candidates accept public testing; return to rational policy confrontation, replacing political slogans for offense and defense; maintain an open and inclusive attitude and create cross-media public assets.