Taipei Times
Date: Aug 30, 2018
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday said that Taichung Mayor Lin Chia-lung (林
Taichung Mayor Lin Chia-lung yesterday in Taichung responds to accusations that he engaged in vote-buying by offering a free banquest for voters. Photo: Chang Ching-ya, Taipei Times
佳龍) contravened election laws by treating residents to a banquet and demanded that prosecutors investigate.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) mayor said that the KMT got its facts wrong, as the banquet was organized by local supporter groups and not by his office.
The banquet took place on July 21 on Lishan (梨山) in the Central Mountain Range, said KMT Culture and Communications Committee deputy director Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) and Wu Huang-sheng (吳皇昇), spokesman for KMT Taichung mayoral candidate Lu Shiow-yen’s (盧秀燕) campaign office.
Video showed about 300 guests at the event, a “lavish” banquet with meat, seafood and other dishes that was held to solicit votes for Lin, Wu said. [FULL STORY]
