Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/05/21
By: Wen Kuei-hsiang, Chen Ja-fo and Chung Yu-chen
Taipei, May 21 (CNA) Former Premier Lai Ching-te (賴清德) on Tuesday accused
Former Premier Lai Ching-te (賴清德)
President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) re-election team of spreading lies by saying that he previously told Tsai he would not run for the presidency.
Lai and Tsai are both from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). The former premier is challenging the incumbent ROC president through the party’s primary election mechanism for the right to be the DPP’s candidate in the 2020 presidential election.
During an interview on a radio show Tuesday, Lai said when he met with Tsai on March 8, she did not ask him if he planned to seek the party’s nomination for the upcoming presidential race, refuting suggestions to the contrary.
The suggestion that Tsai asked him whether he intended to run and that he replied in the negative is a lie, Lai said, “whether it is the president or her aides that lied, I do not know, but someone did.” [FULL STORY]
