Fan Shiping urged Lai Qingde to run for the chairmanship of the Democratic Progressive Party.

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[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] In the 2022 local nine-in-one general election, the Democratic Progressive Party suffered a major setback. The party chairman Tsai Ing-wen resigned from office, and the party will soon usher in a re-election of the party chairman.

Fan Shiping, a professor at the Department of East Asian Studies at Taiwan Normal University, believes that Vice President Lai Qingde should be brave enough to run for the party chairman.

Fan Shiping posted on Facebook that there are currently 2 vacancies for the Mayor of Chiayi, Jiang Wanan's election as Taipei Mayor, and Xu Shuhua's election as Nantou County Magistrate. What the DPP needs most now is a victory to boost morale, so the new party chairman needs it most "Instant combat power", who can fully grasp the power of the "government, court, party" (Presidential Palace, Executive Yuan, Party Central Committee), at present it seems that Lai Qingde is the best candidate, not only the current Vice President, but also the former Premier , so the resources of the three parties can be quickly integrated to maximize combat power.

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Fan Shiping pointed out that Lai Qingde assisted Guo Guowen in the election in 2019, and finally narrowly defeated the KMT Xie Longjie by more than 3,000 votes. Since he participated in the National Congress election in 1996, he has gone through 4 legislators and 2 Tainan mayor elections, plus the 2020 election. In the presidential election, all of them were elected, and it is well-deserved to say that they are the "ever victorious army", so they are naturally familiar with the auxiliary election.

Fan Shiping said that according to many polls in the past, as a presidential candidate, Lai Ruo has the highest support, surpassing blue and green politicians. If the strongest candidate, like Tsai Ing-wen in 2016, is both the party leader and the presidential candidate, he will be able to integrate all resources to seek election, and the Legislative Yuan will also have a majority alone.

According to Fan Shiping, the election of the party chairman and the next four local elections, the presidential and legislative elections should be regarded as "a game of chess". , and there may even be the addition of Han Kuo-yu. The DPP will produce presidential and vice-presidential candidates as soon as possible. "Advance deployment" is the best policy.