Lai Ching-te Enters the DPP’s Presidential Primary, Eliciting Green Embarrassment & Blue Anxiety
2019/03/20
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Lai Ching-te Enters the DPP’s Presidential Primary, Eliciting Green Embarrassment & Blue Anxiety
Source: United Daily News
March 20, 2019
Former premier Lai Ching-te challenges President Tsai Ing-wen; the DPP will start consultations after Tsai has also registered. Should the consultations fail, then the primary will be decided by the results of opinion polls alone. The DPP has initiated its primary, but the KMT is still undecided over whether to draft Kaohsiung City Mayor Han Kuo-yu for the presidential race. The grassroots are filled with anxiety, calling on the Party Central to decide as soon as possible the rules for the primary, using an impartial, open and transparent approach to decide the strongest presidential candidate.
The DPP will probably ascertain its presidential candidacy on April 17th, while inside the KMT, it has not yet decided to adopt a primary or a draft, eliciting quite an anxiety among the masses, who hope that the Party Central will nominate "a sure winner" as soon as possible.
Lee Che-hua, chairman of the KMT’s Organizational Development Committee, yesterday recommended that before the official promulgation of the primary, the party could, through consultations, secure the consent of Eric Chu and Wang Jin-ping to include Han Kuo-yu in the primary mechanism, then through opinion polls or party membership vote-cum-opinion polls, the victor would be chosen as the KMT’s presidential candidate.
The DPP’s primary has started; in order to cope with the consultations on the presidential nomination, DPP Chairman Cho Jung-tai plans to set up a five-member committee for primary consultations.
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