He Wenhai (middle) was elected as the chief convener of the Central City Caucus of the DPP in the new parliament.

(Photo by reporter Su Jinfeng)

[Reporter Su Jinfeng/Taichung Report] The Democratic Progressive Party Group held the election of the new party chief today. Hsieh Chih-chung from the new branch and He Wenhai from the National Congress ran for the election. Due to a breakdown in coordination, the new group represented by Hsieh Chih-chung withdrew from the vote. As a result, He Wenhai was elected as the general secretary of the party group with 13 votes under the cooperation of the Congress and the British faction; however, Xie Zhizhong threatened that his proposal was rejected and would not be respected. He also does not participate in the coordination of the party group, but in the end he will vote for the candidate sent by the party group.

The Taichung City Council has 65 city councilors. The DPP won 24 seats this time, which is quite far from the majority of the 33 seats. Therefore, the operation of the party group is very important. , and according to regulations, the DPP group will produce new cadres on the 25th, so the DPP will conduct the election of the party group general call today.

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There are 24 members of the Democratic Progressive Party, 10 seats in the new department, 8 seats in the regular congress, and 6 seats in the British department. Jiang Zhaoguo, the general secretary of the current party group, announced last Friday (2nd) that he will accept registration for the election of the new party group leader. Xie Zhizhong from the new department registered on the same day, and He Wenhai, who is currently in the National Assembly, registered on Monday, so the coordination began at 10 o'clock today, but it was unsuccessful.

Xie Zhizhong put forward 3 suggestions. In the first 3 years, 3 sub-groups (factions) will take turns to serve as the general caller. Secondly, 6 committees plus about 7 committees in the law, the DPP can get about 2 to 3 callers. It is also equally distributed by the three factions. Third, if the first two proposals are accepted, the new faction will accept the candidates jointly recommended by the Congress and the British faction as the speaker Zeng Chaorong and the deputy speaker Chen Shuhua.

However, the two factions still believe that the will of other members of parliament should be respected, so it is more appropriate to vote once a year. Because Xie Zhizhong and others believe that the regular parliament and the British faction do not respect the new faction, they decided to abstain from voting in the general call of the party group.

Jiang Zhaoguo said that a total of 15 people attended and 13 people received votes. He Wenhai was elected with 12 votes and 1 invalid vote.

Xie Zhizhong said that the two factions did not accept his three proposals, so the new faction withdrew from voting, and also refused to participate in the coordination of the candidates for the chairman and deputy speaker of the new party group. However, based on the unity of the DPP, when the parliament officially voted with the Kuomintang, They will still support the candidates for the speaker and deputy speaker proposed by the party group.

He Wenhai, the general secretary of the new party group, expressed his gratitude to the support of his colleagues in the party group. He said that he is a senior member of parliament, and he will take responsibility and lead the party group to supervise the city government. For example, the total budget of the Lin Jialong era was only more than 100 billion, while that of Lu Xiuyan increased to 220 billion , the proposal cannot be promoted, the construction is delayed, and the city government will be strongly supervised.

The new department was dissatisfied that the proposal for the third reading was not accepted by the regular parliament and the British department, and did not attend the vote.

(Photo by reporter Su Jinfeng)