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Prospects Emerge for Blue-White Alliance in Zhubei as Lin Weizhou Signals Joint Candidate

From Liberty Times · () Chinese

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

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  • Lin Weizhou said the Kuomintang and Taiwan People’s Party are leaning toward jointly backing TPP’s Chiu Chenyuan for Zhubei mayor and KMT’s Hsu Hsin-ying for Hsinchu County magistrate.
  • Lin said the arrangement still requires final approval and announcement by the two party chairpersons.
  • He urged the parties and their allies to stop attacking one another while negotiations continue.

A possible Kuomintang and Taiwan People’s Party alliance in Hsinchu appeared to gain momentum after former KMT lawmaker Lin Weizhou described a day of negotiations as a potential turning point.

Lin wrote late on Aug. 31 that he had spent the day moving between the parties’ central and local organizations. He urged “allies and brothers” not to attack each other and suggested that good news could come soon.

Crisis is an opportunity.

— Lin WeizhouLin used the phrase in a late-night post that signaled possible progress in cooperation talks.

In an interview the following morning, Lin said the two sides had reached a cooperation understanding. Under the proposed arrangement, they would lean toward jointly supporting TPP lawmaker Chiu Chenyuan in the Zhubei mayoral race, while backing KMT lawmaker Hsu Hsin-ying for Hsinchu County magistrate.

Allies and brothers should not attack each other first.

— Lin WeizhouHe urged the two camps to avoid public attacks while negotiating a joint electoral strategy.

The proposal still awaits a final decision from the two party chairpersons. Lin said an announcement could come as soon as that day if the process proceeded smoothly.

He said his discussions had included KMT Hsinchu County Council Speaker Chang Chen-jung, Hsinchu County Magistrate Yang Wen-ke, KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wen, Hsu, County Councillor Wu Hsu-chih, TPP Chairman Huang Kuo-chang and Miaoli County Magistrate Chung Tung-chin. Lin said the participants shared the view that cooperation was necessary to win in both Zhubei and Hsinchu County.

Blue-white cooperation is the only way to win.

— Lin WeizhouLin described what he said was a shared view among participants in the discussions.
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