Taipei Times
Date: Sep 20, 2015
By: Chen Hui-ping and Lee Hsin-fang / Staff reporters
How the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) would govern if it wins the presidential
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen, right front, yesterday laughs after giving a speech at the party’s national congress in Taoyuan, as Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu, with green scarf, looks on. Photo: Pichi Chuang, Reuters
election in January — not just winning the election — is what is truly important for the party, DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday told its national congress.
More than 500 representatives attended the event in Taoyuan, including former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) and former party chairmen Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌), Frank Hsieh (謝長廷), Yu Shyi-kun and Yao Chia-wen (姚嘉文).
Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊) and 11 of the party’s other mayors and county commissioners also attended.
However, Tainan Mayor William Lai (賴清德), whose municipality is battling a major outbreak of dengue fever, did not attend. [FULL STORY]
