Taipei Times
Date: Sep 13, 2015
By: Sean Lin and Tu Chu-min / Staff reporters
With campaigns for next year’s legislative elections in full swing, many “third force”
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je, center, is joined by Discovery Networks Asia Pacific president and managing director Arthur Batings, left, and TLC host Janet Hsieh, right, at TLC’s Taipei Picnic Day event yesterday. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
candidates have asked Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) to make an appearance at their campaign events.
Despite having announced that he would neither be recorded nor filmed, and would not endorse any legislative candidates in the run-up to the elections, Ko, an independent, has carried out other forms of collaboration with candidates nominated by small parties.
Ko last night attended a campaign event for New Power Party (NPP) legislative candidate Freddy Lim (林昶佐), during which he sang two classic Taiwanese songs.
Ko late last month met with Social Democratic Party (SDP) legislative candidates and NPP legislative candidate Hung Tzu-yung (洪慈庸), and is to attend a forum organized by SDP candidate Fan Yun (范雲) this afternoon, during which the two are to discuss politics from a historical perspective.
In other news, Ko on Friday said he is against the the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮) because the nation’s geology makes it unfit for developing nuclear energy. [FULL STORY]
