The Tainan Citizens Progressive Party Group held a party group meeting last night. Mayor Huang Weizhe (left) and the convener of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker Election Supervision Group attended the meeting.

(Photo by reporter Cai Wenju)

[Reporter Cai Wenju/Tainan Report] The election of the chairman and deputy speaker of Tainan City is strange. The Democratic Progressive Party Group of Tainan City Council has launched city councilors Qiu Lili and Lin Zhizhan to run for the chairman and deputy speaker. Rumors are rampant that the Democratic Progressive Party group held a party group meeting last night to make a resolution. On December 25th, the chairman and deputy speaker will vote on the spot to direct the delegation. The speaker nominee Qiu Lili will be in charge.

The fourth term of the Tainan City Council has 57 seats, the Democratic Progressive Party has 28 seats, the KMT has 15 seats, the Non-League and the Non-Party have 12 seats, and the Taiwan Federation and Taiwan Foundation have one seat each.

This time, the DPP pushed Qiu Lili to run for the leader of the parliament, and Lin Zhizhan served as his deputy, challenging the current non-party speaker Guo Xinliang; the current deputy speaker of the Kuomintang, Li Wenjun, also sought re-election.

Although Pan-Green won more than half of the seats, in the face of the past speaker elections, there were two turmoil in the Democratic Progressive Party, which made the next presidential and deputy speaker elections full of uncertainties. room for imagination.

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It is understood that some members of the Democratic Progressive Party felt disrespected and threatened to "vote for themselves", triggering a vote-running crisis within the party. In order to ensure that Qiu Lili can be elected as the speaker, the green camp has also emerged that the deputy speaker can cooperate with the KMT sound.

The pro-Guo faction questioned Lin Zhizhan secretly supporting Li Wenjun

Chen Qiuping, a member of the Democratic Progressive Party who is considered to be pro- Speaker Guo Xinliang, questioned that Lin Zhizhan, the head of the DPP group, must first explain clearly to the reporter whether he has told reporters that "the largest party in the parliament is the speaker? The second largest party is the deputy speaker. ?” Is this a blatant hint that the DPP wants to cooperate with the KMT?

Chen Qiuping strongly suspected that Lin Zhizhan was pretending to win over the deputy speaker, secretly supporting the incumbent Li Wenjun, and had negotiated terms with some members of the Kuomintang privately.

She said that according to the method of selecting candidates for the speaker and deputy speaker within the party, the candidates must be approved by the Central Party Headquarters, and the Party Central Committee should be asked to immediately take over the election of the candidates for the chairman and deputy speaker of Nanshi, because they strongly suspect that the DPP group has been inexplicably Kidnapped by the forces behind.

The Southern Citizens’ Progressive Party Group said that the election of the chairperson and deputy speaker of the DPP is handled in accordance with the regulations of the DPP Central Committee and supervised by the supervision team. There is no need to question the DPP’s determination to win the election with any rumors.

The Democratic Progressive Party group held a meeting last night. Members of Congress were roaring with gunfire. They questioned that the votes had not yet been voted. Qiu Lili felt aggrieved after the meeting, and couldn't help but shed tears on the venue.

The party is precarious Huang Weizhe calls on comrades to be united

Mayor Huang Weizhe, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party, attended last night as the convener of the DPP Tainan City Speaker and Deputy Speaker Election Supervision Group. Vote unanimously, show unity to take responsibility for largest party to reform parliament.

Huang Weizhe said that the current situation of the DPP is precarious, and he hopes that comrades in the party must unite and never split again, and let the DPP group become the leading force in the reform of the Tainan City Council.