The candidates for the chairman and deputy speaker of the Kuomintang Kaohsiung are uncertain. Xu Fuming, the chairman of the city party department, said that Zeng Liyan and Lu Shumei will be invited to coordinate tomorrow.

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[Reporter Ge Youhao/Kaohsiung Report] Kaohsiung City Council Speaker and Deputy Speaker elections will be held on December 25th. The Kuomintang candidates are still uncertain. The city party department will invite Zeng Liyan and Lu Shumei to coordinate tomorrow (16th).

In the election of Kaohsiung city councilors, the Kuomintang won 29 seats. It needs the support of 3 seats from the Non-Party United Alliance and 1 seat from the Non-Party Alliance in order to reach a majority of 33 seats in the first round of speaker voting.

The current speaker, Zeng Liyan, and deputy speaker, Lu Shumei, both expressed their positions to fight for the nomination of the speaker. When the coordination meeting was held at the end of November, the pro-Lu faction had the upper hand.

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KMT chairman Zhu Lilun went south to Kaohsiung in early December, and talked with Zeng and Lu, saying that whoever can win the four key seats without the party will be elected as the speaker.

During this period of time, Zeng Liyan and Lu Shumei worked hard on their own. The Kuomintang City Party Headquarters originally planned to submit the list of candidates for the speaker and deputy speaker to the Party Central Committee tomorrow. !"

Xu Fuming said that tomorrow we will find two candidates for further talks, hoping to have a result. The current crux is to confirm who has the four key seats. If not, we must continue to work hard.

He said that at the beginning, the two sides worked hard to fight for each other. When it comes to deciding on a candidate, he still hopes that the two sides can cooperate.

To coordinate again tomorrow, there may not be any results, and a decision on the candidate will be made next week at the latest.

Xu Fuming pointed out that false voting is not ruled out. Some candidates have won the signatures or recommendations of many councilors, but they still hope to find a way to elect them under the consensus of everyone, and hope that the central government can help.

At Ke Zhien’s Thanksgiving Tea Party this afternoon, Xu Fuming also called on KMT MPs to unite. Now that KMT seats are not enough to be elected speaker, party members and non-party MPs must be able to support them. , Deputy Speaker, but a strong supervisory force is needed to prevent Chen Qimai from becoming more arrogant.