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Talk of the day -- Election fever heating up
2010/02/08 12:29:24 |
Election fever is heating up again in Taiwan with the approach of the legislative by-elections in four counties on Feb. 27 and the year-end polls in five new municipalities.
Following are excerpts of local media coverage of the event:
The Liberty Times:
Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen, former Vice President Annette Lu, and former Premier Su Tzeng-chang went to Taoyuan County Sunday to stump for Huang Jen-chu, the DPP candidate there in the upcoming legislative by-election.
During the campaign event, Su described the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) , which holds over two-thirds of the legislative seats, as a "big bus rolling downhill without brakes." The situation will get worse if the KMT is allowed to win the by-elections in the four counties, namely Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Chiayi and Hualien, he added.
Premier Wu Den-yih was also in Taoyuan Sunday stumping for the KMT candidate Chen Shueh-sheng. Wu said at the campaign rally that if Chen is elected, the KMT administration will be better able to push its policies with greater support from Taoyuan, one of the biggest constituencies in the country.
China Times:
Taichung Mayor Jason Hu was rated in a recent public opinion poll as a superstar who will score a convincing victory in the Taichung municipality, a merger of Taichung City and Taichung County.
According to the poll, 55 percent of residents in the greater Taichung area support the idea of Hu as the KMT's candidate in Taichung, while 7 percent are backing former Interior Minister Liao Liao-yi, and 6 percent are behind KMT Legislator Lu Shiow-yen.
The poll also found that if DPP Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen throws her hat into the ring for the Taichung mayoral election, she will win 23 percent support, compared to Hu's 51 percent.
Two DPP heavyweights -- former Premier Frank Hsieh and former Cabinet member Lin Chia-lung -- will each draw 15 percent support if they decide to run, the poll found.
United Daily News:
Taichung Mayor Jason Hu said Sunday that it would be best to select the KMT's candidates for the mayoral elections in the five new municipalities by means of public opinion polls.
Hu suggested the KMT forego primaries as they tend to "kill relations."
Meanwhile, KMT Secretary-General King Pu-tsung recently told Taipei Magistrate Chou Hsi-wei that the KMT leadership has decided to select its Taipei County candidate for the year-end elections based on public opinion polls to be conducted by three survey firms.
(By Deborah Kuo)
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