Democratic Progressive Party Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang (centre) went to Huguang Market today (10th) to sweep the streets to pray for votes. The vendors happily sent garlic and white radish as blessings. (Photo by reporter Chen Zhiqu)
The Taipei mayoral election continues to heat up. Yesterday, an account posted a video on social media. When Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan went to Zhongtian for an exclusive interview, he was welcomed by a large number of employees. After comparing the photos, the internet celebrity "Four-Chamao" questioned that the person behind the account was Wei Wenxuan, spokesperson of the Beijing Municipal Government. Wei Wenxuan denied that she responded using her own personal account. Scholar Shen Rongqin published an article today pointing out that the account immediately forwarded Luo Zhiqiang's false message smearing Shen Boyang for "distributing drugs in the community center", questioning the high degree of overlap between the city's internal information and anonymous flanking operations.
Shen Rongqin issued an article today pointing out that although Shen Boyang was significantly behind Chiang Wanan in the early polls by 30%, and faced cynicism from the Blue and White camp and certain political commentary programs, Shen has always insisted on fighting a positive campaign and has not changed his ambition to this day. Now the latest poll shows that the gap between the two has narrowed. Although Jiang Wanan still insists that he is in the lead, he is obviously panicked. Facing Shen Boyang, Jiang Wanan began to use his team to smear and spread rumors, and wage a negative election campaign. "Adversity reveals human nature, sincerity will not deceive me."
Shen Rongqin analyzed, "Since August, Chiang Wanan's spokesperson has been changed twice, once as the spokesperson of the Taipei City Government, and once as the spokesperson of the campaign team. Both times were for vicious smear campaigns." Among them, legislator Luo Zhiqiang is responsible for public opinion and issue attack and defense in the election campaign. Shen Boyang blatantly spread rumors: "The real Shen Boyang is to let the community center distribute drugs, let drugs enter our families, and let our children go to the community center to get drugs..." Then strange accounts appeared on the social platform to spread the rumor.
Shen Rongqin pointed out that this account praised Jiang Wanan and posted photos of Jiang Wanan going to Zhongtian to be interviewed by Guo Zhengliang and being welcomed by Zhongtian employees. In addition, netizens caught this account posting photos that were the same as those taken by city government spokesperson Wei Wenxuan at the scene. After the Four Forked Cats exposure, Wei Wenxuan received no response and could not be contacted by reporters. It was not until 15 hours later, at 1:30 in the night, that Wei Wenxuan said it was not her account, but she could not explain why the video she shot on her mobile phone was posted by a fake account of the Internet Army.
Shen Rongqin bluntly stated that Wei Wenxuan was involved in obstructing the stationed parliamentary police and escorting her boyfriend Xie Keyang to bring dangerous items into the house. She was subsequently punished by the former employer Sanli News Department, but Jiang Wanan, a former legislator, successively promoted her to deputy secretary-general. Spokespersons and spokespersons, such as the spokesperson of Chiang Wanan's campaign team and the city government spokesperson, joined forces to spread rumors and start a negative election campaign in Taipei City. While smearing and spreading rumors, they also said that Shen Boyang was engaged in cognitive warfare.
Shen Rongqin believes that from the time he changed his surname to Chiang and became a legislator to the mayor, he has never experienced setbacks in politics in a prosperous life. Once he encounters difficulties, he realizes that his ability to withstand pressure is so low. He appoints evil sycophants with evil intentions and commits shady scandals. How can such a character with no ability to resist pressure serve as the leader of the city government? "Nowadays, the election campaign is full of chaos, slander is everywhere, and villains are flying all over the city. These people were appointed by him personally. Jiang Wanan can no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb about this. He should explain his attitude towards the controversy between Luo Zhiqiang and Wei Wenxuan, be more aboveboard, and stop fighting negative campaigns."
