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Su Chiao-hui Invites Review of Her 10-Year Record, KMT Councillor Says She Blocked New Taipei Funding

From Liberty Times · () Chinese

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

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  • DPP New Taipei mayoral candidate Su Chiao-hui asked the public to review her record from the past decade at a campaign headquarters event.
  • KMT New Taipei councillor Lü Chia-kai accused her of opposing changes to fiscal allocation rules, blocking additional city funding and voting against higher compensation for Indigenous communities.
  • Lü also criticized Su over food-safety concerns, housing funds and the relocation of a planned Indigenous museum from New Taipei to Kaohsiung.

Su Chiao-hui has invited the public to examine her 10 years in politics. New Taipei City councillor Lü Chia-kai responded by laying out what he called a record of choices that left New Taipei residents disappointed.

Lü, a member of the opposition Kuomintang, said Su opposed amendments to the Fiscal Revenue and Expenditure Allocation Act and blocked efforts to increase New Taipei’s share of centrally distributed tax revenue. He also accused her of remaining silent as the central government reduced local social-housing funding. In his telling, she blocked additional money for New Taipei while allowing cuts to the city’s budget.

Please examine my record over the past 10 years.

· Su Chiao-huiThe DPP New Taipei mayoral candidate made the appeal at the inauguration of her campaign headquarters.

Lü further accused Su of putting party interests above Indigenous rights. He said she voted against a proposal to increase compensation for Indigenous communities affected by logging restrictions, despite presenting herself as an Indigenous family member by marriage. He also criticized her over the decision to move a planned National Museum of Indigenous Peoples from the Sanxia and Yingge area to Kaohsiung, saying Su had failed to defend the project as a local legislator.

Su Tseng-chang 3.0

· Chen Chi-maiThe Kaohsiung mayor used the phrase to describe Su Chiao-hui at a campaign event.

Food safety formed the third part of Lü’s criticism. He said Su had not spoken out forcefully enough over major food-safety concerns and the toxic-oil controversy, which he said could affect families, schools and children across New Taipei. Lü accused her of shifting responsibility to local authorities and contrasted that with a past remark by her father, former premier Su Tseng-chang, that shirking responsibility was unacceptable.

Lü also questioned Su’s efforts to distance herself from the image of a second-generation politician. He noted that former premier Su Tseng-chang did not appear with her at the campaign headquarters event, while Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai publicly called her “Su Tseng-chang 3.0.” Lü also pointed to the presence of Bao’an Temple flags at the rally, recalling her father’s earlier pledge outside Taipei’s Bao’an Temple that he would not run for a third time. He questioned the political symbolism of bringing the temple into Su’s campaign.

Five times fierce

· Chen Chi-maiChen jokingly described former premier Su Tseng-chang while referring to Su Chiao-hui's political image.
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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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