With 19 days left before the year-end election, New Taipei City Assembly candidate You Mingyan of the Democratic Progressive Party put up a sign in Tamsui saying "A vote for the KMT means a support for Xi Weini", sparking heated debate. Kuomintang city councilor Chen Weijie criticized that his opponents lacked substantive political opinions and relied on red-labeling to intensify confrontation, calling for the removal of negative signs and a return to policy competition. You Mingyan countered that "the country must come first before the home" and did not deny local development. Instead, he asked that the CCP's military threats continued, but the KMT's top leaders were showing sincerity to the CCP and should explain clearly to the Chinese people.
During every election period in Taiwan, a special street scene with candidate billboards often appears in the streets, alleys and main intersections. Recently, some netizens discovered that the New Taipei City Councilor candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party in the first district, You Mingyan, had put up a campaign sign near Section 4 of Danshui New City 2nd Road, which read, "Yangyou Huiju, vote for You Mingyan; vote for the KMT, support Xi Weini." This attracted a lot of attention, and made netizens call out, "I consider myself neutral and green, but... have you agreed to a positive campaign?"
In this regard, Chen Weijie criticized that the duties of local councilors are to supervise municipal administration, strive for grassroots construction, and solve life problems for the villagers, including transportation improvements, long-term care and childcare, educational resources, and flood prevention and control. These are the immediate issues that the villagers really care about. However, as soon as the opponent camp entered the electoral campaign, they chose to put up highly offensive and divisive billboards, turning simple local grassroots elections into opposition to unity and independence and political smearing. "This is completely a shoddy electoral step taken when they lack substantive political opinions and are unable to serve the local area."
Chen Weijie said that Taiwan's democracy has been developing for many years, and the people have long been tired of the malicious operations of "labeling" and "hatching." Simply labeling all folks who support different policy directions or political parties as "supporting specific foreign leaders" not only insults the wisdom of local voters, but also creates conflicts and opposition among simple neighbors. "Elections are temporary, while local development and community sentiment are long-term." He asked, "Do we have to do whatever it takes to be elected?" He called on the opponent camp to show democratic demeanor, immediately remove negative attack signs that incite hatred and confrontation, and return to healthy competition on real policies.
In response to Chen Weijie's criticism of the billboard for "smearing red", You Mingyan asked Chen Weijie, who is the real threat to Taiwan's existence, who will not give up the use of force to invade Taiwan, invade Taiwan with military aircraft and ships, and suppress diplomacy? The obvious answer is the Communist Party of China. Kuomintang Chairman Cheng Lai-wen has traveled to China many times to praise Chinese Communist Party President Xi Jinping for his "goodwill" and declared that "Taiwan has never been a country." Vice Chairman Xiao Xucen even said that "we can also talk about Taiwan, China, because we all belong to one China." He questioned whether Chen Weijie agreed with the treasonous remarks made by senior officials of the Blue Camp one after another. The blue camp continues to show its sincerity to the CCP. How to ensure that its sovereignty is not infringed? This can't be overcome by just "wiping it off".
You Mingyan emphasized that he has never denied local development. He served in the Legislative Yuan for a long time in the past and worked with legislators such as Su Qiaohui to promote the construction of the Tamjiang Bridge, Tamhai Science City, Tambei Road, and light rail extension. However, "first there is a country, then there is a home." Local development does not conflict with national security. The existence of Taiwan, the Republic of China, must first be ensured before various constructions can be promoted. He called on Chen Weijie to provide a positive response to the remarks made by senior members of his party for the people to review.
