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Gou to consider independent presidential bid: aide

business tycoon Terry Gou

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/08/30
By: Liu Kuan-ting, Yu Hsiang and Chung Yu-chen

Taipei, Aug. 30 (CNA) An aide to tycoon Terry Gou (郭台銘) confirmed Friday that if Gou decides to run

business tycoon Terry Gou

in the 2020 presidential election he will do so as an independent.

Gou, the founder and former chairman of iPhone assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry, has been mulling an independent run for president since losing the Kuomintang (KMT) presidential primary in mid-July to Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜).

Gou aide Tsai Chin-yu (蔡沁瑜) said Friday Gou would run as an independent should he decide to run, adding that the tycoon needs time to make a decision as he has just returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia.

The deadline for registration as a presidential candidate is Sept. 17.    [FULL  STORY]

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