FERVENT SUPPORT: Hundreds of thousands of people attended the events, where DPP candidate Chen called for justice and the KMT’s Han vowed to revitalize the city
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 24, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
With the Kaohsiung mayoral election having become a flashpoint of the nine-in-one
Tens of thousands of supporters of Democratic Progressive Party Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Chen Chi-mai attend his election-eve campaign rally in the city yesterday.
Photo: Chang Chung-i, Taipei Times
local elections, the candidates from the two largest political parties last night made a last-ditch effort with large-scale campaign rallies ahead of today’s vote.
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) urged his supporters at his election-eve rally to get justice for Kaohsiung and for the city’s three-term former mayor, Presidential Office Secretary-General Chen Chu (陳菊), by voting today.
“Chinese Nationalist Party [KMT] Chairman Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) called her [Chen Chu] a ‘fat sow’ and [KMT Kaohsiung mayoral candidate] Han Kuo-yu [韓國瑜] described Kaohsiung as an old and poor city,” Chen Chi-mai said.
“Let us translate our anger into action and use our ballots to safeguard Kaohsiung, to show Chen Chu that we care about her and to get justice for the city,” he said, adding that without the sacrifice of Chen Chu and other democracy pioneers in the 1979 Kaohsiung Incident, Taiwan’s democracy would not have made it to where it is today. [FULL STORY]
