Ke Zhien's bid to win the election hits back at Lai Ruilong: What citizens want is policy expertise rather than factional escort

Ko Wenzhe, the founding chairman of the People’s Party, went south to Kaohsiung yesterday (3rd) to join forces with Ke Zhien, the Kaohsiung mayoral candidate of the Kuomintang, and criticized the mayoral candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party, Lai Ruilong, for being "too fightable." Lai Ruilong replied that the "two Kes" do not understand Kaohsiung and that the citizens only care about urban development. In response, Ke Zhien ran for Ban today (4th) responded with a heavy blow, saying that what the citizens really want is continued development, but development does not rely on escorting and shouting slogans, but depends on policy expertise, budget control and execution courage. Especially as the mayor of the "Ocean Capital", he must have integrity and structure that can withstand testing.

The smoke of the Kaohsiung mayoral election is getting thicker. Ke Zhien's campaign went full blast today, saying that Lai Ruilong repeatedly made a fuss about "how long he will stay in Kaohsiung" and attacked Ke Zhien for only four years. According to this logic, Hsieh Chang-ting and Chen Ju were both airborne, so are they not qualified to run? Four years ago, Ke Zhien gained the trust of more than 529,000 citizens under difficult circumstances and vowed to spend the rest of his life repaying Kaohsiung. Lai Ruilong, on the other hand, has narrowed the mayoral election to a "household registration and seniority competition", which is a narrow pattern.

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Ke Jingban criticized that Lai Ruilong boasted of 20 years of political experience, but "years of experience do not equal ability." He took all the central budget as his own credit, boasted that he would win 600 billion yuan within the legislative mandate, and simply took away the full central subsidy in one go. Is it possible that Chen Chimai City Hall and the other seven green committee members in Kaohsiung are doing nothing and taking everyone's efforts as their own credit.

The Ko Jing Office said that in order to attack Ko Chi-en, Lai Ruilong repeatedly spread rumors and smeared Kaohsiung's "20 billion shortfall" in the fiscal planning law amendment. However, the new version of the fiscal planning law allows the central government to return the tax pie to the local governments. Kaohsiung's annual overall allocation of tax revenue has actually increased by 25.8 billion to 27 billion yuan, injecting a boost to local independent financial resources.

Ke Jingban said that Ko Wenzhe said that Lai Ruilong was "very easy to fight". This was by no means underestimating the enemy, but accurately pointed out the cruel facts. A civilian who relied on the protection of factions, was involved in fraud when disasters occurred, and only kept silent when the central government cut local budgets. His structure and shoulders cannot support Kaohsiung's future to the world.

Ke Jingban criticized that the ruling elites gathered in Hong Kong to "rescue one person from the whole party", which reflected not the rulers' macro-level commitment to the development of southern Taiwan, but the anxiety and calculation of factional interests when the interests were shaken. When Kaohsiung was hit by heavy rains and many places suffered from flooding, where was the immediate concern from the top management? When the president only cares about whether the candidate will lose, but does not see the difficulties in the lives of citizens, how can the future of this city be easily squandered by factional calculations and blind escort?

Ke Jingban emphasized that this Kaohsiung mayoral election is no longer a duel between blue, green and white parties, but a battle of values ​​between Ke Zhien, who represents Qingliu, and Lai Ruilong, the new trend agent.