Want China Times
Date: 2015-06-12
By: CNA
The secretary-general of Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) Lee Shu-chuan announced
Hung Hsiu-chu, second left, recording the first song for her campaign, June 11. (Photo/CNA)
Thursday that deputy legislative speaker Hung Hsiu-chu’s fate as the ruling party’s 2016 presidential nominee will be decided by her ability to secure at least 30% of support in a series of opinion polls set to take place over the coming two days.
The results of the opinion polls are then set to be published on Sunday morning.
According to the ruling party’s regulations, Hung’s nomination will be decided by the collective outcomes of three polls to be conducted by different companies.
She is the only candidate to have qualified for the ruling party’s presidential primary.
Each of the three polls will be comprised of an “approval” survey designed to gauge respondents’ support for Hung as a candidate and a “comparative” survey testing her rating against that of Tsai Ing-wen, chair and presidential nominee of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party. In addition, each of the three polls must obtain 1,200 valid results from those polled. [FULL STORY]
