Gou Declines to Sign KMT Primary Covenant Owing to Unclear Primary Rules

 Gou Declines to Sign KMT Primary Covenant Owing to Unclear Primary Rules

Source: All Taipei Newspapers

June 11, 2019

The KMT scheduled a meeting today for its five primary hopefuls, i.e., Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), Kaohsiung City Mayor, Terry Gou (郭台銘), Chairman of Foxconn, Eric Chu (朱立倫), the immediate-past New Taipei City Mayor, Chou Hsi-wei (周錫瑋), a former Taipei County Executive, and Chang Ya-chung (張亞中), an NTU professor of political science and principal of the Sun Yat-sen School, to discuss details on primary rules and to sign a primary covenant pledging not to maliciously attack other hopefuls and, if failing to win the KMT’s Presidential nomination, not to run for President in 2020 by breaching party discipline.

However, in a press conference yesterday, Gou criticized the KMT primary rules as unclear, saying that he would not sign the covenant until the rules were finalized. Gou also urged other hopefuls not to sign the covenant as blind as a bat.

In addition, Gou stated he hoped that in today’s meeting, the party central would give him clear-cut answers to the eight recommendations he had made last Thursday, such as to include 50% mobile phone polls in the primary polls, and to adopt 100% cross-referencing opinion polls with imaginary foes with no need to include polls among KMT’s own hopefuls.

In response, Han stated that he respected Gou’s views, but he would follow the primary procedure and sign the covenant.

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