CLOSED DOOR: Candidates for Tainan mayor and Hsinchu County commissioner said they did not make any quid pro quo deals with the KMT for backing out of the races
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 30, 2018
By: Jonathan Chin / Staff writer, with CNA
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lin Wei-chou (林為洲) and party member Chen
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Den-yih, third left, and others yesterday cheer KMT Legislator and Taoyuan mayoral candidate Apollo Chen, third right, at a meeting of the party’s Central Standing Committee in Taoyuan. Photo: Hsieh Wu-hsiung, Taipei Times
Tzu-ching (陳子敬), who were campaigning without party backing, dropped out of their respective races yesterday after meetings with KMT leadership.
A tearful Lin renounced his bid for Hsinchu County commissioner at an early morning news conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, while Chen announced he would no longer run for Tainan mayor after meeting with KMT Chairman Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) in Tainan.
Lin said he wants to reform the party from within and hopes he would be the last victim of the party’s arbitrarily altered nomination process.
Also present at the news conference were KMT whip Johnny Chiang (江啟臣), caucus deputy secretary-general William Tseng (曾銘宗) and other party lawmakers who are reportedly Lin’s friends. [FULL STORY]
