Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/12/18
By: Flor Wang, Wang Cheng-chung and You Kai-hsiang

Taipei, Dec. 18 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said Wednesday in a live policy presentation on TV that her main challenger in the 2020 presidential election does not have the qualities needed to serve as head of state.

Tsai said the rhetoric from the campaign of Kuomintang (KMT) presidential candidate Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), who is also mayor of Kaohsiung, has been discriminatory, emotional, divisive and at times misleading.

For example, Han has made the claim that "many people around President Tsai are corrupt," she said, adding that he should explain why two of his wife's close friends were appointed to head the culture and tourism bureaus in Kaohsiung.

Tsai, who is seeking a second term in the Jan. 11, 2020 presidential election on the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ticket, also noted that Han has promised to revive the disbanded Special Investigation Division (SID) to probe allegations of corruption among senior government and military officials.    [FULL  STORY]