The 2026 Taipei mayoral televised debate has come to an end, and the aftermath of the confrontation between current mayor Chiang Wanan and Democratic Progressive Party candidate Shen Boyang continues to expand. On the 1st, political commentator Chang Yu-hsuan exposed the verification results of the verbatim draft of the debate, pointing out that Chiang Wanan exposed himself as "completely ignorant of municipal affairs" in his debate speech. After comparison, he found many errors, falsehoods or lack of information. The basis for the slap in the face was mostly public information from the Taipei City Government Bureau. He criticized Chiang Wanan for "having no idea what his staff gave him or what he read. He just pretended to be very confident."
Zhang Yuxuan published an article on Threads and pointed out that through the verification and comparison of the complete verbatim draft one by one, Jiang Wanan had no understanding of municipal affairs. He found as many as 23 errors and 45 items of false information or lack of information. The funniest thing is that the sources of verified information were almost all public information provided by the Taipei City Government Bureau.
In terms of public affairs, Jiang Wanan claimed that "the first 7599 project on Kangle Street has been announced and signed." Zhang Yuxuan checked and refuted it. The case at Lane 136, Kangle Street, Neihu, is indeed the "575 project", and the first case of the 7599 project is This is the case at Lane 60, Hulin Street, Xinyi District; and the completion of the investment signing does not mean the actual commencement of construction at all. There is no way to refute the "zero construction" questioned by the outside world. Loose machine height limit is one of the more obstacles, and property rights, integration and finance will also be blocked.
In terms of nutritious lunches and food safety on campus, Jiang Wanan said that the food safety scandals in many schools at Jinhua Junior High School "completely passed the post-inspection inspection", and Zhang Yuxuan called out official records and judged it to be a general error: Cheng Yuangao's central China hot food department lunch box was immediately detected as golden Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin B; the test results of the private Yanping Middle School students who were unwell and sent to the hospital were not disclosed at all at the time; as there were no samples of the meals of Jinhua Junior High School that day, the same batch of ingredients was subsequently tested and passed the test, which cannot directly replace the actual consumption of the samples that day. In addition, Shen Boyang's speech at that time was to demand that the drug be investigated and sent for examination. The accusation that he claimed "mass poisoning" still needs to be supported by complete original words.
As for Jiang Wanan's objection that Shen Boyang's "cutting the north and south" of the Citizen Avenue Elevated is an amateur, Zhang Yuxuan dug out the existing files of the Beijing Municipal Urban Development Bureau and confirmed that the city government has repeatedly discussed the "sewing" of the north and south of the Citizen Avenue and the spatial alienation caused by the elevated. Even if the underground railway has improved some ground barriers, it cannot Obliterate the fact that elevated roads isolate the human environment; outsiders can question the specific design, project costs, and parking facilities, but they cannot directly deny the fact that ground space is blocked just because the roads are elevated. Although the underground railway has improved some ground obstructions, it does not mean that the road environment does not need to be improved.
Zhang Yuxuan criticized this, saying that whether it was a sharp question or a eloquent speech, Jiang Wanan had no idea what his staff gave him or what he read, and he just pretended to be very confident. He doesn't know what to compare between someone who has read the whole process and someone who has internalized it in his mind. People who don’t even know how far the East Side is from the Dome, or how miserable the East Side is now, have absolutely no room for discussion.
