"Freedom Day Shoot" refused to mobilize and support the election of Kuomintang You Shuzhen, Hua County Health Director Zhu Jiaxiang was dismissed from office

Twenty-four days before the nine-in-one election, Hualien County Health Director Zhu Jiaxiang revealed the night before that he had been fired and transferred to the Senate seat before the election because the county secretary-general asked him to mobilize 100 people to support the Kuomintang county magistrate candidate You Shuzhen. He refused in person, and the county magistrate Xu Zhenwei transferred him to the county seat on the same day. Zhu decided to resign and return to work as a pediatrician. He said frankly, "I believe that all county bureau chiefs are like me, entangled in politics and professions."

Zhu Jiaxiang sent a message to colleagues the night before: "Last week, the secretary-general asked me to mobilize to support You Shuzhen. I refused. I will be dismissed from the post of health director and transferred to the position of senator, and I also refused." Because the message was screenshotted and circulated on the Internet, it triggered speculation that the county government was not neutral in administration.

Zhu Jiaxiang recounted the incident yesterday, saying that he was notified to go to the county secretary-general's office last Thursday. There were already many heads of bureaus and departments there. "It's not convenient for me to tell you who they are." County secretary-general Rao Zhong, who was promoted to deputy county magistrate yesterday, asked each bureau to hold a county government briefing. He also clearly told the Health Bureau to mobilize 100 people. He asked, "Will the candidates come?" Rao Zhong laughed and said, "You know!"

Zhu Jiaxiang said that he immediately refused because he was worried that once the candidate came, he and his colleagues would be labeled as administratively non-neutral, and he firmly opposed "this will make civil servants fearful and frightened."

Zhu Jiaxiang said that the afternoon before yesterday, he was told by County Magistrate Xu Zhenwei to be transferred to the county council, but he refused on the spot. He said that he is not short of work and can leave as an administrative officer at any time. He will return to Tzu Chi Hospital as a pediatrician because there is a shortage of pediatricians now and he can better take care of Huadong's children when he returns to Tzu Chi.

Huaxian County Government said it was transferred in accordance with the law and urged outsiders not to make inappropriate associations

The county government yesterday appointed six new chiefs, including Secretary-General Rao Zhong who was promoted to deputy county chief. The county government emphasized that this wave of personnel transfers was in response to the amendment to Article 56 of the Local Institutional Law. The county and municipal governments can add a deputy county magistrate and a deputy secretary-general, and called on the outside world not to make inappropriate associations.