Lai Ruilong and Ke Zhien quarreled with each other: Inviting Ke Wenzhe to the platform should not badmouth Kaohsiung

The founding chairman of the People's Party, Ko Wenzhe, and the current chairman, Huang Guochang, went south to Kaohsiung in the past two days, triggering an exchange of fire between Democratic Progressive Party mayoral candidate Lai Ruilong and Kuomintang mayoral candidate Ke Zhien. Lai said that Ko "invited people, so don't badmouth Kaohsiung."

Regarding the fact that Ko Wenzhe and Huang Guochang went south to share the same frame with Ko Zhien, Lai Ruilong pointed out in an interview today that the process of political party elections is like this. Everyone strives to win support from all parties. Yesterday, President Lai Qingde and Vice President Xiao Meiqin also went south to Kaohsiung to recommend his platform. "This is all part of democratic politics, and we respect it." However, we still have to emphasize that "the people you invite should not badmouth Kaohsiung. They should recognize Kaohsiung's hard work and development in recent years."

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Lai said that Kaohsiung has made great progress in recent years because of its hard work. At the same time, we should also consider that in the process of inviting people, we need to spend more time to change the laws that are unfavorable to Kaohsiung. In the past two years, the "Financial Planning Law" jointly revised by Blue and White has cost Kaohsiung 20 billion. Mayor Chen Qimai has also said many times that MRT funding has been greatly affected, not only this year, but also in the future.

Lai Ruilong hopes that Ke Zhien will review why Kaohsiung suffered such losses in the past due to the Financial Planning Law. At that time, he also cooperated with Huang Guochang, which led to the revision of the Financial Planning Law. "The Kuomintang and the People's Party insisted on passing it, and Kaohsiung suffered a budget loss of nearly 20 billion. This is unacceptable to us." Instead of coming to the platform, we should think about how to fight for Kaohsiung's construction and budget to achieve better results. On the one hand, it will hurt Kaohsiung's finances and budget, and on the other hand, it will be a platform. Kaohsiung people see it clearly and have their own judgment.

In response, Ke Zhien responded, "Every time we make any supervision suggestions about Kaohsiung, we say we are badmouthing Kaohsiung." She wanted to remind Lai Ruilong that in 2015, Lai twice asked Mayor Ke Wenzhe to help you. It is completely unimaginable for you to stand beside him and nuzzle him. "Did you also think that Ke Wenzhe was badmouthing Kaohsiung at that time?"

Ke Zhien criticized that it is illogical to speak just because one person has changed positions. "We are only fulfilling the role of supervision. That is why we have to change parties to see." Even though there are eight DPP regional legislators in Kaohsiung, do they dare to raise any questions about any part of the budget proposed by the central government and the budget has so many loopholes?

"As soon as we propose anything that can make Kaohsiung better and point out some of the current shortcomings, you will say that we are badmouthing Kaohsiung, and Kaohsiung people will not pay the bill!"