ELECTIONS: Ko ends term to focus on election, defends director

CULTURAL GUIDANCE:Ko’s campaign director has been a target of criticism by KMT candidate Ting Shou-chung, who says Ko is attempting to use him to draw DPP votes

Taipei Times
Date: Nov 08, 2018
By: Lee I-chia  /  Staff reporter

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) today is to begin a leave of absence to focus on his re-

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taipei mayoral candidate, Legislator Pasuya Yao, dances with a performer dressed as the Third Prince during a news conference outside the Taipei City Government Hall yesterday.  Photo: CNA

election campaign.

Asked yesterday morning about his feelings on his last working day as mayor, Ko said he does not feel anything in particular, as he just discussed urban renovation issues in a daily meeting and still had to review many documents.

Ko also said that his campaign director Hsiao Yeh (小野) is a “nice person,” after Hsiao Yeh appeared in a promotional video for Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁), stirring speculation over Ko’s political stance.

Ko had earlier said that he respects Hsiao Yeh’s decision to support Chen, as election and political party preferences are not the only concerns in personal relationships.
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