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Thousands of people braved the rain to support each other! Liu Jianguo's Mailiao campaign ended early, Lai Qingde gave a heart-warming reminder "this sentence"

President Lai Qingde went south to Yunlin to support the Democratic Progressive Party county magistrate candidate Liu Jianguo. The meeting ended early due to heavy rain, calling on voters to use democracy to reject family politics.

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  • Liu Jianguo, candidate for Yunlin County Magistrate of the Democratic Progressive Party, held an inauguration meeting of the Mailiao campaign headquarters on the 14th.
  • President Lai Qingde, who is also the chairman, attended in person to support the campaign.
  • Due to the continuous rain, the meeting ended early after discussion between the two parties.

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Liu Jianguo, candidate for Yunlin County Magistrate of the Democratic Progressive Party, held the inauguration meeting of the Mailiao campaign headquarters, and President Lai Qingde went south to the platform to give a speech.

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Democratic Progressive Party Yunlin County Mayor candidate Liu Jianguo held the inaugural meeting of the Mailiao campaign headquarters this afternoon (14th). President Lai Qingde, who is also the chairman of the campaign team, was originally scheduled to deliver a speech at around 5 p.m. Seeing that the rain was not letting up, Liu Jianguo discussed with him and drastically changed the process, ending the meeting more than an hour early. Lai Qingde emphasized that Liu Jianguo had fought for a lot of construction for Yunlin, and even planned a complete policy blueprint, calling on voters not to let "the Zhang family win the whole bowl." After the event, Lai Qingde also warmly reminded the public to "remember to drink a cup of ginger tea and take a hot bath."

Lai Qingde first expressed his gratitude to the thousands of supporters in the audience who attended in the rain and bowed deeply. He said that there are three major reasons for supporting Liu Jianguo. First, Liu Jianguo has traveled nearly 30 years from citizen representative to councilor to legislator, and he can definitely withstand the test. He is well aware that Yunlin County’s medical resources are quite lacking, so he has secured funding for the expansion of National Taiwan University’s Huwei Branch and the National Research Center for Aging Medicine and Health and Welfare to enrich local medical resources.

Lai Qingde pointed out that Liu Jianguo has fought for more than 7 billion yuan for the repair of agricultural waterways and more than 3.1 billion yuan in subsidies for agricultural machinery and equipment for farmers. He is the county and city that has the most subsidies among the counties and cities. He has worked professionally and worked hard in the Legislative Yuan, and has won a lot of funds from the central government to build Yunlin County. Therefore, he is fully confident that he is qualified to serve as the mayor of Yunlin County, and the construction of Yunlin County will make progress in the future.

Lai Qingde said that Liu Jianguo wants to build a medical care industrial park, an agricultural dual-technology park, and even an artificial intelligence technology industrial park for Yunlin County, so that young people in Yunlin can have jobs in their hometown and take care of their elders in their hometown.

Lai Qingde said that everyone should use Yunlin democracy to support Liu Jianguo, because the opponent is the "Zhang family" who is the third to elect the county magistrate. He does not believe that the Kuomintang has no talents in Yunlin County. In addition, the Zhang family also controls the farmers, fishermen's association and Beinong system. The goal of democracy is to let the people make the decision. The Zhang family must not let the Zhang family take the whole bowl.

He gave an example. Fu Kunqi of Hualien County was replaced by Xu Zhenwei after he became the county magistrate. However, under the huge pressure from society, he did not send his children to run for election after leaving office. Instead, he recommended the township chief to run for election. The Kuomintang in Changhua County was originally the most suitable candidate for the county magistrate, the Xie family’s daughter, but the Xie family considered Even though his son wanted to continue as speaker, he did not dare to let his daughter be elected county magistrate. It was because of the "democratic" factor that everyone knew that they should not take the whole bowl. There were only a few days left before the voting. We appealed to voters to continue to press for votes, continue to consolidate votes, and make sure their votes are counted.

After finishing his speech, Lai Qingde was worried that the supporters in the audience would catch a cold due to the rain, so he also called on the public to drink some ginger tea to warm themselves up. He even reminded people to take a hot shower and change clothes as soon as they got home, which also made the rally, which was originally scheduled to end at 5:30, end more than an hour earlier.

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