BackLai Qingde attended the founding meeting of Shen Boyang's competition and praised Shen as the mayor of the capital city with an international outlook
Lai Qingde attended the founding meeting of Shen Boyang's competition and praised Shen as the mayor of the capital city with an international outlook
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Lai Qingde attended the founding meeting of Shen Boyang's competition and praised Shen as the mayor of the capital city with an international outlook

Lai Ching-te, chairman and president of the Democratic Progressive Party, attended the founding meeting of Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang's presidential campaign and called on citizens to support and affirm Shen Boyang's positive election and vision blueprint.

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  • Lai Ching-te, chairman and president of the Democratic Progressive Party, attended the founding meeting of Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang's candidacy.
  • He praised Shen Boyang for his international outlook and vision, and called on supporters to gather strength to break the smear campaign and send Shen Boyang to the Taipei City Government.

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Chairman and President of the Democratic Progressive Party Lai Ching-te attended the inauguration meeting of Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang's campaign headquarters and delivered a speech of full support.

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Lai Ching-te, honorary chairman of Shen Boyang's presidential election, chairman and president of the Democratic Progressive Party, attended the founding meeting of the Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang's election this afternoon. He praised Shen Boyang as "very handsome today." He nominated Shen Boyang because he must win. He said to Shen face to face, "You praise it! You have no problem! You will freeze the garlic!"

Lai Ching-te said that he would like to pay tribute to every drop of the thousands of "ocean currents" that are still spilling out and spreading. He would like to thank the citizens for taking the courage to uphold justice as the master of the city when Taipei needed it most, and to strongly convey that Taipei deserves a better city. Long, such a strong and powerful voice; thank you for supporting Shen Boyang, bringing him warmth and confidence, allowing Shen Boyang and everyone to go all the way to this point. Give yourself and Shen Boyang a round of applause and cheers, and at the same time praise Shen Boyang as "very handsome today"!

Lai Qingde pointed out that during this period, many people said that Shen Boyang was a "black gangster pretending to be soy sauce". It was difficult to see how powerful Shen Boyang was, and he had narrowed the gap in just a few months. However, he believed that what made Shen Boyang great was not his explosive power and narrowing the gap in a short period of time. The most admirable thing was that he always put citizens first and respected them. , every citizen is his campaign chairman. In order to get close to every citizen, he visited every administrative district and tried to go to every market and temple. He also accepted interviews from media with different positions. He even promoted the soap box project, breaking the traditional form, standing on the same level as the citizens and listening to their voices.

Lai Ching-tak said that when this project was decided to be launched, some people felt they had the ability to dare to take on such a challenge, because it may be good or bad, but the process became clear. Shen Boyang's humility, respect for the citizens, listening to the voices of the citizens, feeling the difficulties of the citizens, and being willing to use what he has learned and what he can to use his professionalism and experience, and respond to the citizens sincerely, are very touching.

Lai Qingde mentioned that Shen Boyang did not ask A and B, but fought a positive election with the warm and positive spirit of "Ocean Current". He chose to take a long way to save his opponent. He opposed making an issue about Jiang Wanan's life experience and believed that this election was a candidate's election and children should be protected. Even when Jiang forgot to take the sugar cane, Shen said that maybe Jiang Shiduo's forgetting to take it was not intentional, full of positive energy.

Lai Qingde mentioned that Shen Boyang has always talked about ideas and visions, and has publicly said many times that Taipei City, as the capital of Taiwan, has not talked about visions for too long, and it is time to talk about visions during the election. Shen Boyang is willing to be the first to listen and read his vision and policy blueprint in detail. With his status as the five-star mayor of Tainan, he pledged his full support to Shen Boyang. After being elected, Shen Boyang will promote his vision and blueprint. Taipei City will definitely be suitable for dreaming, working and falling in love.

Lai Ching-te said that letting Shen serve as mayor to lead Taipei City will definitely become the Taipei of the world. Not only the citizens deserve a better mayor of Taipei, but Taiwan also deserves a better mayor of the capital city. Shen Boyang has an international outlook, ability and blueprint to bring Taipei to the world. Taipei City can serve as a bridge between Taiwan and the world in the future and become a true capital. Shen Boyang and everyone who supports the ideal of "Ocean Current" are like water droplets. Together they form an ocean current. They are bound to change this election, the future of Taipei City and Taiwan's electoral culture, and lead Taiwan to continue to go further.

However, if there is a positive direction, there must be a negative direction, and if there is an ocean current, there must be a countercurrent. Cognitive warfare and smearing have already begun. Lai Qingde said that Shen Boyang regards the opponent's smear campaign and cognitive warfare as the beginning of a willing dialogue. This is a high degree and an attitude of the ocean current. This election is not Shen Boyang's election, but an election and movement related to the future of Taipei City, the happiness of citizens, transcending parties and ethnic groups, and pursuing a better Taipei. We call on the ocean currents to gather together, to let the countercurrent flow, to keep moving forward, and to send Shen Boyang to the Taipei City Government on November 28.

Lai Qingde emphasized that by nominating Shen Boyang, he must win! And said to Shen in person, "Thank you! You have no problem! You know how to freeze garlic!"

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  • Voting for the Taipei mayoral election will be held on November 28

    Very likely · Within months

Open Questions

  • How to deal with smear and cognitive warfare in the aftermath of the election campaign?
  • How will other candidates respond to Shen Boyang's vision blueprint?

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