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Ko Wen-je Joins Taiwan People’s Party Candidates for Registration Rally in Hsinchu County

From Liberty Times · () Chinese

Translated from Chinese and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Ko Wen-je attended a joint registration and campaign event in Hsinchu County with five county council candidates and six township or city representative candidates.
  • He urged candidates to engage voters in person and proposed coordinated campaigning across the greater Hsinchu area, including Miaoli’s Zhunan and Toufen.
  • Ko said the party had faced pressure since its creation and encouraged candidates to continue working despite the uncertainty of success.

Ko Wen-je arrived in Hsinchu County early in the morning with a simple message for the Taiwan People’s Party candidates: do not mistake online visibility for voter contact.

Together with Chiu Chen-yuan, the party’s Hsinchu branch chief and a candidate for mayor of Zhubei, Ko accompanied five county council candidates and six township and city representative candidates as they registered at the Hsinchu County Election Commission. He handed out jelly and garlic sprouts, a wordplay on the Chinese expression for winning an election, and wished the party’s “players” success.

Do not be too convinced by online campaigning. You still have to get out on the streets and meet voters directly, show your strengths fully and win their support.

— Ko Wen-jeAdvice to the party’s candidates at the joint registration event.

With fewer than 90 days left before the election, Ko said politics still had a practical side. Candidates needed to meet voters, be seen and show their strengths directly rather than place too much faith in online campaigning. He described elections as a continuing process similar to building a brand, and said the party should not focus only on Zhubei. Its candidates were also running in Xinfeng, Hukou and Zhudong.

Effort does not necessarily lead to success, but without effort there will certainly be no success.

— Ko Wen-jeKo’s message encouraging candidates to keep working during the campaign.

Ko argued that the greater Hsinchu living area should include Zhunan and Toufen in Miaoli, as well as Hsinchu City. He called for joint campaigning across the area to create a new opening for the party. He also said the Taiwan People’s Party had faced bullying and various forms of pressure since its founding, claiming earlier third-party groups had not encountered such severe treatment.

Chiu said he was joining the registration event both as a candidate and as Hsinchu branch chief. He pledged to seek Hsinchu residents’ support with sincerity and solid effort, while backing the party’s five county council and six local representative candidates.

We hope that, with the most sincere attitude and the strongest effort, we can earn recognition from Hsinchu County residents.

— Chiu Chen-yuanStatement about the candidates’ registration and campaign.
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Originally published by Liberty Times in Chinese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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