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Date: 2018/12/11
By: International Community Radio Taipei (ICRT)
Photo Credit: 中央社
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) will meet the mayors-elect of the country’s six special municipalities beginning this week, local media reported Monday.
Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang (黃重諺) said Tsai called the six mayors-elect Nov. 26 to congratulate them on their election victories.
The first meeting is scheduled to be with Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), but Huang confirmed that since Tsai has stepped down as chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), she will confine discussions with Ko to municipal matters, and they will not discuss an upcoming by-election for the seat vacated by losing Taipei mayoral candidate Pasuya Yao (姚文智). It had been suggested in these pages that the DPP might seek to cooperate with Ko on promoting a candidate in order to avoid a potential split vote and consequent victory for the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) candidate.
According to Huang, the purpose of Tsai’s meetings with the mayors to be is to bring together the central and local governments to enhance public welfare and to ensure seamless central and local government cooperation on development projects.
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