FIERCE BATTLE: Legislator Chen Ting-fei, who also stood in the primary, said she would not retract a lawsuit filed against accusations by Huang amid intense competition
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 09, 2018
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲) yesterday
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Huang Wei-che, who won the party’s Tainan mayoral election primary yesterday, campaigns on Wednesday. Photo: Wan Yu-chen, Taipei Times
celebrated a landslide victory against five competitors in the party’s primary opinion polls for Tainan for the Nov. 26 nine-in-one elections.
The DPP announced the combined results of three opinion polls conducted by telephone on Wednesday, which showed Huang crushing his rivals, DPP legislators Chen Ting-fei (陳亭妃), Wang Ding-yu (王定宇) and Yeh Yi-jin (葉宜津), as well as former Tainan deputy mayor Yen Chun-tso (顏純左) and former DPP legislator Lee Chun-yi (李俊毅).
Huang received support from 41.58 percent of respondents, easily outrunning Chen’s 28.17 percent, followed by Yen’s 6.72 percent, Wang’s 5.13 percent, Lee’s 2.11 percent and Yeh’s 0.76 percent.
Huang thanked supporters while calling for party unity given the rhetoric-laden mudslinging competition that developed between candidates. [FULL STORY]
