TAIPEI CONTEST:Chiang Wan-an said the nation has changed since last year’s Sunflower movement and young people need to step forward and boost the KMT

Taipei Times
Date:  Mar 31, 2015
By: Tsai Ya-hua, Wang Wen-hsuan and Chen Wei-han  /  Staff reporters, with staff writer

Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安), the son of former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) vice chairman

John Chiang (蔣孝嚴) and a fourth-generation descendant of former president Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石), on Sunday announced that he would run in the KMT’s legislative primary in Taipei’s Zhongshan (中山) and Songshan (松山) districts, pitting himself against incumbent KMT Legislator Lo Shu-lei (羅淑蕾) and KMT Taipei City Councilor Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇).

Chiang Wan-an’s bid for the candidacy has been described by pundits as an attempt to avenge his father’s defeat at the hands of Lo in a 2011 KMT legislative primary.

Chiang Wan-an, 37, rejected the accusation, saying that there was no animosity between his family and Lo.

The nation has changed since the Sunflower movement and the nine-in-one elections last year, and young people need to step forward and bolster the KMT after the party suffered its greatest defeat in last year’s elections, Chiang Wan-an said.

Chiang Wan-an, who holds a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, has been working as a lawyer in the US and is a partner in a Taiwanese law firm. He said that he does not have dual citizenship when reporters asked him about his nationality.     [FULL  STORY]