Green Camp Annan District veteran Wang Jinde (right) was influenced by South Korea's support during the 2018 election campaign and became the "crane tail" of the six-seat councillor in Annan District. This time, he will face more challenges.

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[Reporter Wang Jie/Tainan Report] This election feels very cold, but the Annan District of Tainan is quite complicated, because the chairman of the city council Guo Xinliang and the deputy chairman Lin Bingli are in this district, and Lin Bingli passed away last month, and Guo Xinliang left the DPP For the first time, he ran for election without a party. In this election, in addition to the blue, green and non-party, he also joined the forces of the times, the People's Party and the Fundamentalist Party. A total of 14 people have to compete for 6 seats in Annan District. In the last election, the "Cranial Tail" Green Camp veteran Wang Jinde and the youngest non-party candidate Lin Wei had a similar number of votes. This time the two met for the second time.

Annan District has been dominated by the Democratic Progressive Party and no party for the past 10 years. In 2018, the Kuomintang brought momentum due to Han Guoyu, so that the Blue Camp City Councilman Li Zhongcen won the second highest vote from the "tail of the crane", and before losing the election in 2014. Kuomintang city councilor Huang Lizhao, after changing to the election without a party membership, was also promoted by the Korean Wave in the same year and won the third place. Guo Xinliang was still in the DPP at the time, but the subsequent speaker election did not gain support from the party, and he left the party to participate in the election. In the election, this time without the late Vice Speaker Lin Bingli pulling each other up, we must face the challenge alone.

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This year, bad news in the political arena has also indirectly affected the election situation in Annan District. Chen Jinyi, a former city councillor, passed away in early May this year. His daughter Chen Shiwei ran for election this time as a member of the People’s Party. Deputy Speaker Lin Bingli died of illness in September. Taking over, Qiu Zhaosheng is the chairman of the Baoan Palace in Zhongzhouliao, the faith center in Annan District.

Also running for the election with "inheritance" is Chen Jinxing, a non-party city councillor who was previously engaged in road engineering. Since his relatives are deceased former councillors, he has a dream of becoming a politician, but his style is relatively low-key. In this election, he did not set up a service office. Just carrying an advertising billboard on the road for publicity; Chen Yugan, who has no party membership, is also low-key, but when the media reported about housing justice the day before yesterday, it was discussed that she has a background in land development.

On the issue of housing justice, the Kuomintang candidate Tong Xiaoyun was also discussed by the media, alleging that she has a background in building business, but this is mainly her husband's business. The long-term re-election is successful, and there is a certain vote base. In 2019, he was recommended by city councilor Xie Longjie and called up by the Kuomintang to challenge Chen Tingfei, the current legislator of the DPP. This time, Tong Xiaoyun reorganized her army and participated in the election of city councilors in Annan District, which may affect the same Party member Li Zong-sum.

Another female candidate who was unsuccessful in the election was Cai Liqing, who was dismissed from the DPP's Tainan City Party Office. In her early years, she was an assistant in the service office of Legislator Wang Dingyu. In 2009, Wang Dingyu expressed that she would not be re-elected as a city councillor and would hand over the baton. To Cai Liqing, but at that time happened to encounter the merger of the county and city, Wang Dingyu still participated in the primary election and won, but Cai Liqing lost, and she transferred to the team of the legislator Chen Tingfei, but in the 2014 city council primary election, Cai Liqing was not successful, and later It was transferred to former Deputy Mayor Yan Chunzuo and the Tainan City Party Department to cultivate strength. This year, it was supported by Chairman Pan Xinchuan and won the first vote in the primary election.

Wang Jinde and Guo Qinghua, two veterans of the green camp, have a solid foundation in Annan District, but this time they have to face new challenges. Among them, Lin Wei, a candidate without party membership, is regarded as a dark horse. He is still the youngest candidate after 4 years. The second time he lost to Wang Jinde and Tang Yijing, the former second generation of the DPP government, this time Tang Yijing lost the primary election. Lin Wei and Wang Jinde will face off against "the tail of the crane" or "the loser".

Lin Wei participated in the Sunflower Student Movement when he was a student, so he met his wife. After the student movement, he had ideals in politics. After the defeat in the last election, he participated in social movements while running dozens of kilometers every day to support his family, selling textbooks, several times. Faced with economic pressure and ideals, he shed tears. This time, he dived for 2 elections in 10 years and gained a lot of experience.

The political amateur this time is the newly joined candidate of the Fundamental Progress Party, Wang Mingyan. He has no election background. He used to work in literature, history and art. However, Chen Jiandaming, who changed his name for the election, was also engaged in artistic creation and social movements in the past. People are running for election in Annan District for the first time, bringing a different fresh image.

Cai Liqing, the former executive director of the Tainan City Party Department of the Democratic Progressive Party, has gone through the experience of legislators Wang Dingyu, Chen Tingfei, former deputy mayor Yan Chunzuo and the city party department. , won the first vote in the primary election.

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The Kuomintang city councilor candidate Tong Xiaoyun (right) was recommended by the Kuomintang city councilor Xie Longjie and participated in the complicated election campaign in Annan District this time.

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Lin Wei, a candidate without party membership, once participated in the Sunflower Student Movement. After ten years of diving and losing one election, this time he is expected to become the dark horse among the candidates without party membership in Annan District.

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Four years after he left the DPP, Tainan City Speaker Guo Xinliang (left) participated in the election campaign without a party for the first time.

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