Taiwan News
Date: 2015-10-13
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – People are more interested in changing the ruling
Changing parties more important: Tsai. Central News Agency
party next year, rather than in which candidate the Kuomintang wants to change, Democratic Progressive Party Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday.
The frontrunner in the January 16 presidential election was responding to the news that the KMT would hold a special congress on October 17, which was highly likely to result in the replacement of Legislative Vice Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu as its presidential candidate by party chairman Eric Liluan Chu.
Asked whether she was planning to adapt her campaign strategy in the face of Chu’s likely emergence, Tsai said the Taiwanese public probably did not care all that much what kind of candidate the KMT would present, since they were more concerned with changing the party in power early next year.
Conducting a campaign meant going along with the flow, and presenting the best possible team and the best possible policies to win the support of the public, Tsai said. [FULL STORY]
