CONTESTED: Yang Li-huan refused to accept results of the polls, saying they did not conform with the preliminary results her aides had gathered during the polling process
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 29, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Apollo Chen (陳學聖) is poised to represent
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Apollo Chen holds up a clenched fist at a news conference in Taoyuan after the KMT announced that Chen was the winner of the party’s primary for the Taoyuan mayoral election. Photo: Chen Yun, Taipei Times
the KMT and compete against Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) in November’s mayoral election after he yesterday defeated two other candidates in the party’s primary.
According to the average results of three opinion polls released by the KMT’s Taoyuan chapter yesterday, Chen garnered a support rating of 35.68 percent, followed by Taoyuan City Councilor Lu Ming-che (魯明哲) with 33.06 percent and former KMT legislator Yang Li-huan (楊麗環) with 31.24 percent.
Chen, who is serving a fourth term as legislator, is expected to be officially nominated by the KMT at a meeting of the party’s Central Standing Committee next week at the earliest, the party said.
If his nomination receives the committee’s support, Chen would be the second special municipality mayoral candidate nominated by the party after KMT Legislator Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕), who secured her nomination as the party’s Taichung candidate on Wednesday last week. [FULL STORY]
