HIS RESPONSIBILITY? Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu said that as mayor he has come to understand that for things in Kaohsiung to be good, things in Taiwan must be good
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 24, 2019
By: Wang Jung-hsiang and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) yesterday said that he would be unable to
Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu speaks at a news conference in the city yesterday.Photo: CNA
participate in the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) presidential primary as it is currently structured, but that he believes the nation’s development and defense is his responsibility.
Han, speaking to the media after a Kaohsiung City Government meeting in the morning, thanked his supporters “at home and abroad.”
“During my tenure as mayor, I have come to deeply understand that things can only be good in Kaohsiung if things in Taiwan are good,” he said. “At this time, I cannot join the primary under the existing system.”
Politics has long been influenced by “bigwigs” holding meetings in private, and has moved far away from the will of the general public, he said. [FULL STORY]
