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The Kuomintang did not nominate a candidate in the Hsinchu mayoral election and chose to support Gao Hongan, who ran as an independent. This move is regarded by the outside world as a "blue and white" strategy aimed at confronting the Democratic Progressive Party.
The Hsinchu City KMT did not nominate a mayoral candidate this year, and the East District City Council candidate Qian Kangming’s letter of trust from the City Party Headquarters is simply an insult to the KMT. (Taken from Qian Kangming’s Facebook)
The Kuomintang did not nominate a candidate for the Hsinchu mayoral election this year and supported the re-election of the current mayor Gao Hong An, who quit the People's Party and ran for election without party membership, under the banner of "Blue and White". The Hsinchu City Party Headquarters of the Kuomintang issued an appeal to party members to support the mayor, councilors and mayor candidates nominated and supported by the party. Eastern District City Councilor candidate Qian Kangming criticized the Kuomintang Zhushi Party Headquarters for basically humiliating the Kuomintang. Not only did the letter of appeal issued by the party headquarters not only have no mayoral candidates with party membership, but they also did not dare to use the word Kuomintang. The "Blue and White Team" seemed to embrace Gao Hongan, who had no party membership, and only planned to cause the DPP to lose, but neither party benefited.
Qian Kangming mentioned that the Kuomintang’s letter of entreaty mentioned the tacit understanding of “incumbent first” unity and strong cooperation, but the Kuomintang chose to give up the nomination for Hsinchu mayor. It seemed that Blue and White were embracing the non-party member Gao Hongan, but neither party benefited. He believes that how could Gao Hongan listen to you Blue and White? Especially the seats of the Kuomintang city councilors will inevitably be compressed by Gao Hongan's escorts, and the number of seats of the Kuomintang councilors will only be smaller. He also brazenly said that "unity and cooperation will lead to success."
It is the Kuomintang itself that Qian Kangming is ruining the unity. We will wait and see on November 28 how many votes will be lost from the grassroots of the Kuomintang. However, among the 122 districts in Hsinchu City, there are only 19 Kuomintang district chiefs running for election. Are there any district chiefs who are clearly Kuomintang members but are running as non-party members? The Kuomintang has actually fallen to this point, and party members dare not register as party members to run for elections.
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