Jiang Wanan helped Qiu Chenyuan to elect Qiu Chenyuan, but he was facing expulsion. Shangguan Qiuyan criticized the Kuomintang for its double standards and ruthlessness

KMT Hsinchu County Councilor Shangguan Qiuyan bluntly said that comparing the KMT's Hsinchu County Party Headquarters' actions to clean up the party with the Central Party Headquarters' approach to Zhao Shaokang and Jiang Wanan's public support of Qiu Chenyuan "is a double standard." (Photo by reporter Huang Meizhi)

The Hsinchu County Party Headquarters of the Kuomintang went through two rounds of party purges last week, requesting the Party Central Committee to revoke the party memberships of three county council candidates, Shangguan Qiuyan and Xu Yuxin, and Emei Township mayor candidate Jiang Ning, on the grounds that the three people violated discipline and assisted in the election of other parties. However, compared to yesterday, Zhao Shaokang and Jiang Wanan either went to Zhubei in person to help Qiu Chenyuan, the Zhubei mayor candidate of the Taiwan People's Party, or videotaped to cheer Qiu Chenyuan from the air, but so far they are safe and sound. Shangguan Qiuyan bluntly said, "This is a double standard!" Since we are all members of the Kuomintang, we should treat them equally. She believes that "everyone has eyes to see."

The Kuomintang Hsinchu County Party Headquarters stated that they respect the opinions of all parties.

In contrast to Shangguan Qiuyan's outspokenness, Xu Yuxin said that the Kuomintang could expel anyone it wanted, and he had "no objection." Jiang Ningzeng said that the county party headquarters has not notified him of the revoked party membership since last week. He only found out about it after reading media reports, so it is inconvenient to comment.

Shangguan Qiuyan fiercely emphasized that she had not violated disciplines in helping other parties to support the election. Zheng Chaofang, the candidate for county magistrate of the Democratic Progressive Party, did not attend the founding meeting of her election. Instead, Guo Yuanzhang, mayor of Zhudong Town who has no party membership and was a former comrade of the Kuomintang, came. As for her brief appearance outside the venue where President Zheng Chaofang Jing was founded, it was mainly because she was sending her daughter-in-law home, and her daughter-in-law lived next to the venue.

Shangguan Qiuyan said that the Kuomintang Hsinchu County Party Headquarters targeted her and Xu Yuxin mainly because during the party's primary election, the two of them helped Chen Jianxian arrange rice noodle field presentations in Zhudong and Guanxi respectively, so they were named as markers. However, there are many people in Hsinchu County who are more serious than them. Among them, a township mayor who is running for re-election often wears a vest with the name of a DPP parliamentary candidate. Has the county party department dealt with it?

Shangguan Qiuyan said that she did not dare to say what the Central Party Committee should do with Zhao Shaokang and Jiang Wanan. What she wanted to say was that no matter who it was, the Kuomintang should treat them equally and fairly as long as they violated disciplines in the election, so as to convince the public.

She said that in the past, the Kuomintang’s candidates for county magistrate, from Qiu Jingchun and Yang Wenke to legislator Lin Siming’s election of legislators and opposition to recall, she worked with them, contributed money and efforts, and stood at the intersection at around 6 a.m. to help wave flags. As a member of the Central Committee, she pays 100,000 yuan a year, and has already paid 400,000 yuan; she also helps share the rent of the Zhudong Party Headquarters, which ranges from 20,000 to 40,000 yuan every month. Now, just to hunt down Chen Jianxian's supporters or disciples, they are shouting and beating. She cursed "the Kuomintang is ruthless"!

Hsinchu County Councilor Xu Yuxin said she has "no objection" to the KMT expelling anyone it wants. (Photo by reporter Huang Meizhi)

Jiang Ningzeng, the candidate for mayor of Emei Township of the Kuomintang, was listed in the first wave of party purges at the county party headquarters last week. (Photo provided by Jiang Ningzeng)