FACILITATOR: Caucus whip Ker Chien-ming played a key role in the negotiations after he persuaded William Lai that Ko Wen-je should be included in the polls for comparison
Taipei Times
Date: May 30, 2019
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
The mechanisms for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential primary were
Then-premier William Lai speaks to reporters at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on May 29 last year, left, and President Tsai Ing-wen leaves a National Security Council meeting at the Presidential Office in Taipei on May 10 in a composite image.
Photos: Chu Pei-hsiung and Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
settled yesterday, including to conducting public opinion polls on both landlines and mobile phones.
Officials in President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) camp said that the process best reflects the current political situation and would yield the strongest candidate for the party.
After deliberation at a DPP Central Executive Committee meeting, a consensus was reached that the two opinion polls would count for 50 percent each and that they would take place from June 10 to June 14.
Tsai and former premier Willam Lai (賴清德) agreed to hold one televised presentation at a date to be fixed by the party executive, committee members who were at the meeting confirmed. [FULL STORY]
