Cai Qichang (right), candidate for mayor of Taichung from the Democratic Progressive Party, suffers from poor governance by the team of Suan Lu Xiuyan.

(Photo by reporter Zhang Xuanzhe)

[Reporter Zhang Xuanzhe/Taichung report] The topic of Taichung mayor election at the end of the year is getting hotter. After DPP Taichung mayoral candidate Cai Qichang questioned Lu Xiuyan’s lies, he met Taichung City Councillors Lin Qifeng, Wang Liren, Chen Shuhua, and Zhang Jiayu today at the MRT. On Taiwan Avenue, where the blue line runs, a press conference on the Mayor's policy of the "100-kilometer MRT Plan" was held to announce the MRT policy of Mayor Cai Qichang.

Cai Qichang said that in the four years since Xiuyan Lu took office, there has been no progress in the elevation of the Taichung MRT and the mountain line and the sea line.

So far, Lu Xiuyan has not made it clear to the citizens of Taichung that the MRT Blue Line and the station site are changed to benefit specific people and the budget has increased by 30 billion.

Even the invitation to Lu Xiuyan to debate has been avoided so far. The public broadcasting group recently invited the debate, and Cai Qichang has signed the agreement.

Cai Qichang said that he hoped Mayor Lu would come forward to face the questions of Cai Qichang and the citizens of Taichung.

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Cai Qichang pointed out that Taichung is a very high-quality and competitive city due to its geographical location of mountains and seas, but the city score is at the end of Taiwan’s crane. Therefore, he proposed the top ten constructions in Taichung, the most important of which is Taichung City’s MRT network.

Regarding the debate, the Taichung City Government reiterated that Mayor Lu has selected the public debate. In addition, the mayor pointed out in many interviews with the media that the object of her dialogue over the years has been citizens, and the content of the dialogue is about municipal construction and services in the past four years.