Saturday June 8 TV presentation is only one ahead of June 10-14 opinion polls
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/06/08
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The two rivals for the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP)
Ex-Premier William Lai in Saturday’s DPP televised presentation. (By Central News Agency)
presidential nomination, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and ex-Premier William Lai (賴清德), presented their views and responded to questions from experts Saturday (June 8).
The 90-minute event, broadcast live on CTS but also streamed online, is the only opportunity the two rivals will have before opinion polls to be conducted from June 10 through 14 will determine the final candidate for the January 2020 election.
After an opening speech by DPP Chairman Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) calling for solidarity once the choice had been made, Tsai and Lai gave a short presentation.
Lai insisted Taiwan was already a democracy where the people decided who ruled the country.
At this most difficult moment, when Taiwan and the DPP faced tough times, he could just not sit idly by and watch the party lose power and Taiwanese democracy lose its sovereignty, the former premier emphasized. [FULL STORY]
