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BackPeople's Party Keelung City Zhongzheng District Municipal Councilor candidate Lin Tinghan established a campaign headquarters and received support from Blue and White
People's Party Keelung City Zhongzheng District Municipal Councilor candidate Lin Tinghan established a campaign headquarters and received support from Blue and White
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People's Party Keelung City Zhongzheng District Municipal Councilor candidate Lin Tinghan established a campaign headquarters and received support from Blue and White

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  • Lin Tinghan, a candidate for municipal council in Zhongzheng District, Keelung City, Keelung City, established a campaign headquarters on Xinfeng Street, becoming the first candidate for municipal council from the People’s Party to establish a headquarters.
  • People's Party Chairman Huang Guochang, Keelung Mayor Xie Guoliang, and Kuomintang Keelung City Party Committee Chairman Lin Peixiang were present to support, demonstrating the solid blue-white cooperation in Keelung.
  • Lin Tinghan proposed the vision of "Keelung is loving and age-friendly" and listed five major policy axes.

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Why It Matters

Lin Ting-han has served as a congressional assistant, city deputy spokesperson and mayor's secretary. He graduated from the School of Public Health at National Taiwan University. In recent years, he has devoted himself to caregiving work due to family changes and continues to participate in public affairs.

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Taiwan People's Party Keelung City Zhongzheng District City Councilor candidate Lin Tinghan established a campaign headquarters on Xinfeng Street today. He is the first People's Party City Council candidate to set up a campaign headquarters. People's Party Chairman Huang Guochang, Keelung Mayor Xie Guoliang, and Kuomintang Keelung City Party Committee Chairman Lin Peixiang all came to the platform to support, showing that the Keelung Blue and White Alliance is unshakable.

Lin Tinghan said that the campaign headquarters was chosen on Xinfeng Street, where he grew up. Seeing the elders and villagers who took care of him along the way, he felt full of gratitude. Combining his past experience as a parliamentary assistant, city deputy spokesperson and mayor's secretary, his major from the National Taiwan University School of Public Health, and his experience of the situation of caregivers after family changes, he put forward the vision of "Keelung is loving and age-friendly". In the future, "Keelung will be inclusive of generations", "Safe childbirth", "people-oriented housing", "parking friendly" and "Zhongzheng Xindu Star" as five major policy axes to promote long-term care transportation, child and child care, community walking safety, parking improvement and youth housing.

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Huang Guochang said that he was very touched that Lin Tinghan had complete experience in parliament and city government. He took on the responsibility of taking care of his family after a family accident at a young age and continued to devote himself to public affairs. I hope that the public will support kind and professional young people to speak for the people and supervise municipal administration in the city council.

Xie Guoliang recalled that the first time he met Lin Tinghan was at his high school graduation ceremony. At that time, Lin Tinghan's mother held his hand and told him: "Tinghan is a child who is extremely interested in public affairs." Lin Tinghan later entered the city government as a confidential secretary and deputy spokesperson. The two worked together to promote municipal government and also faced challenges together during the 2024 recall case. Xie Guoliang said that he looks forward to using Blue and White cooperation to allow more enthusiastic and professional young talents to devote themselves to public services and jointly promote the construction of Keelung.

Qiu Peilin, chairman of the Keelung City Party Committee of the People's Party, also came to cheer for Lin Tinghan and hoped that Lin Tinghan would use his youthful enthusiasm and experience to inject more vitality into Zhongzheng District.

Lin Peixiang shared that Lin Tinghan has multiple experiences at the grassroots level, the central government, Congress and the city government. He expected Lin Tinghan to continue to display his professionalism. He also shouted: "Zhongzheng District is the only one who supports Lin Tinghan."

What to Watch

AI outlook — possibilities, not facts

  • Lin Tinghan will receive broad support from Blue and White voters in the city council election

    Likely · Within weeks

  • Keelung Mayor Xie Guoliang will continue to promote the expansion of the Blue and White cooperation model in other policy areas

    Possible · Within months

Open Questions

  • What are the specific sources of Lin Tinghan’s campaign funds?
  • What is the specific timetable for the implementation of its policy in Zhongzheng District?
  • To what extent does Blue-White cooperation extend to other constituencies in Keelung?

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This article was originally published by 自由时报.

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