The militia group called on the 8th Blue Committee to withdraw from the election before the additional defense budget is passed. Xie Longjie responded

The Executive Yuan proposed a supplementary budget of 607.6 billion yuan for this year. The review process was completed by the Legislative Yuan committee last week. The government and the opposition are scheduled to complete the third reading on November 20. The Alliance for Economic Democracy think tank today called on the eight KMT legislators participating in the county mayor election to support the Ministry of National Defense’s additional budget so that the KMT military can have a large number of drones to prevent the People’s Liberation Army from landing. If the supplementary budget is not passed by the 20th or is deleted or frozen, eight blue committee members including Jiang Qichen should withdraw from the election directly. In this regard, the KMT Tainan mayor candidate Xie Longjie who was named said that I will explain to the villagers how I vote.

Xie Longjie said that I am concerned about the coastal defense of Xishu; the national army needs drones to guard the coast, and I support it. The Legislative Yuan has passed the "Regulations on Strengthening National Defense Independence and Development of the Unmanned Vehicle Industry" on third reading, requiring the central government to allocate 240 billion yuan over six years. The Ministry of National Defense should give priority to purchasing domestically produced unmanned vehicles, and public sector procurement also excludes manufacturers from China, Hong Kong and Macao. I will review this additional budget item by item. If deleting or freezing will delay combat readiness, I will not support it. How I vote will be explained to my fellow villagers.

After the People's Liberation Army asked the Blue Committee to withdraw from the election, Xie Longjie asked, if we use the same yardstick, should we also measure the DPP? The Legislative Yuan passed on the third reading that the central government will fully subsidize the health care premiums of seniors who meet income requirements. President Zhuo Rongtai did not countersign, and the Democratic Progressive Party group publicly supported it. According to this standard, if you support the Green Committee without countersigning, will you also have to withdraw from the election? He further asked Committee member Chen Tingfei, the Tainan mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, if you promised that Tainan’s health care premium subsidies for the elderly would not exclude the rich, would you support it if the central government provides this money for the elders? If Dean Zhuo doesn’t countersign, do you agree or not?