Radio Taiwan International
Date: 30 May, 2019
By: John Van Trieste
DPP presidential hopeful William Lai has spoken out against what he has called an undemocratic rewriting of the party’s primary contest rules.
DPP presidential hopeful William Lai has taken to Facebook condemning changes to his party’s primary contest rules.
The DPP uses telephone polling to determine the outcome of its primaries. Pollsters ask voters which presidential candidate they would vote for in different election scenarios to gauge which of the party’s hopefuls stands the best chance of winning.
Though rules for this year’s contest were decided in March, disagreements continued over whether mobile phones should be included in the polling.
Lai’s camp says that the party should stick to the rules it settled in March and only poll landline numbers. However, at a meeting Wednesday, the party’s central committee decided on a compromise. Half of the people polled will now be landline users, while the other half will be users of mobile phones. The committee agreed to the compromise by consensus, without holding a formal vote. [FULL STORY]