Taipei Times
Date: Feb 18, 2016
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairperson candidate Lee Hsin (李新)
Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Central Standing Committee member Lin Rong-te, center, yesterday announces his decision to withdraw from the KMT’s chairmanship by-election at a press conference in Taipei. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
yesterday urged a rival, KMT acting chairperson Huang Min-hui (黃敏惠), to resign from her post to ensure a level playing field for all candidates.
In front of several cardboard placards showing his campaign pledges, Lee showed his discontent with what he called the party’s unjust chairperson by-election by beating a drum in front of the KMT’s headquarters in Taipei.
“Both candidates in the KMT’s 2007 chairperson by-election — then-acting chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄) and then-legislator Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) — stepped down from their posts as party acting chair and Central Standing Committee member respectively to prevent the public from making a fuss about the issue,” Lee said.
Lee — who serves as a Taipei City councilor — said Huang should follow the pairs’ example and avoid giving the public the impression that she is “both a player and a referee in the game.” [FULL STORY]
