The Democratic Progressive Party group elected Li Shibin, a senior county councilor, to run for the chairmanship of the next county council.

(Provided by Li Shibin)

[Reporter Ye Yongqian/Pingtung Report] The Democratic Progressive Party’s Pingtung County Party Committee held a county council party group meeting on the evening of the 12th to discuss the nomination of the chairman and deputy speaker of the county council. Xu Zhanwei, the chairman of the party department, ran for the election of the deputy speaker. During the meeting, Wu Liangqing, a county councilor who wanted to run for the speaker, was quite dissatisfied because his proposal was not adopted, and walked away.

The Democratic Progressive Party’s county council group invited 13 county party members to participate last night, 3 of whom went abroad, and 10 people attended. The main purpose was to discuss the election strategy for the next county council chairperson and deputy speaker. Wu Liangqing, who intends to run for the county council speaker, suggested First list the candidates who intend to stand for the election, but some members think that the Party Central Committee has explicitly banned black gold clauses, so they propose to select the most senior members to run for the election. They think that Li Shibin, who has been re-elected for 7 terms, is the most suitable, and he immediately won the approval of most members , but it also aroused Wu Liangqing's dissatisfaction. He criticized the party for not introspecting on the spot, and then walked away. After Li Shibin was elected, he also decided to cooperate with the former county party committee chairman Xu Zhanwei to run for the rightful speaker election.

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Li Shibin said that although the DPP is at a disadvantage in terms of seats, the existing 13 seats may only be 20 after winning party members, which cannot be more than half, but knowing that it cannot be done, this is the core value of the DPP, and he will try his best to fight for it. Impossible to vote for the Kuomintang candidate.

Li Shibin explained that because the DPP was at a disadvantage in the last election for the deputy speaker, he hoped to coordinate with the Kuomintang to win the seat of the deputy speaker. However, due to the opinions of the Kuomintang, another candidate was proposed, and the DPP group finally changed the voting method to give itself the same Voting is different from this resolution.

The Pingtung County Council has 55 county councilors, the KMT next term has 19 seats, the DPP 13 seats, and the non-party membership 23 seats. The KMT County Council Party Group has decided that the current speaker, Zhou Dianlun, and the non-party deputy speaker, Lu Wenrui, will continue to He is fighting for re-election, and has won the support of more than 9 non-party county councilors. He has more than 28 seats, which is already a substantial majority.

County councilor Xu Zhanwei is running for the deputy speaker.

(Provided by Xu Zhanwei)