Taipei Times
Date: Oct 19, 2018
By: Chen Yu-fu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Central Election Commission yesterday disqualified 15 city and county councilor
China Unification Promotion Party member Lee Cheng-lung, center, is escorted by police officers in Taipei on May 29 last year following his arrest for decapitating a statue of Japanese engineer Yoichi Hatta in Tainan. Photo: CNA
hopefuls for having run afoul of the law or electoral procedures, including China Unification Promotion Party member Lee Cheng-lung (李承龍), who in June was convicted of vandalizing a statue of a Japanese engineer in Tainan last year.
The commission made the announcement in a press statement, adding that it had finished vetting all candidates in the Nov. 24 nine-in-one elections.
All 25 mayoral candidates in the six special municipalities and all 68 running for mayor or commissionership in other localities have qualified, the commission said.
However, three of the 751 city councilor candidates in the special municipalities were stripped of their candidacy, it said. [FULL STORY]