Tsai Ing-wen was responding to the first KMT presidential primary race TV forum

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/06/26
By: Judy Lo, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) responded in a Facebook post on

Wednesday (June 26) to the first televised forum from the five presidential primary contenders of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party held on Tuesday (June 25).

“I do not intend to criticize any individual candidate, but candidates must speak clearly of their values and of how they plan to realize those values,” Tsai said. “Voters expect something more than empty, emotional comments.”

Tsai also referred to a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Kaohsiung that celebrated the opening of a Mini Three Links (小三通) route between Kaohsiung’s Qijin (旗津) and China’s Wenzhou (溫州), on Tuesday. The head of Kaohsiung’s Tourism Bureau, Pan Heng-hsu (潘恒旭), attended the ceremony on behalf of the city.

The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) pointed out on the same day the event was a sham. No entity has applied for approval of the route. Pan later apologized and explained he attended the event as a private citizen.    [FULL  STORY]