Hsinchu City Deputy Speaker Yu Bangyan, who originally announced his withdrawal from the Kuomintang yesterday, expressed today that he accepted the condolences and would not quit the party.

(Photo by reporter Hong Meixiu)

[Reporter Hong Meixiu/Hsinchu Report] The candidate for the deputy speaker of the KMT’s Hsinchu City Council Party Group originally staged a plot where the current deputy speaker, Yu Bangyan, and Chen Qingling’s brothers fought against each other. Unexpectedly, there was a major turning point today. After signing the condolence statement, Chen Qingling, who originally intended to run for the deputy speaker, was persuaded by Xu Xiurui to announce that he would not participate in the election of the deputy speaker.

After the Kuomintang group of the city council went south to coordinate a "false vote" within the party, Chen Qingling originally won with 8 votes higher than Yu Bangyan's 6 votes. In the evening, after a long talk with Xu Xiurui, the speaker and head of the city's party department, a major turning point occurred.

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Yu Bangyan signed Xu Xiurui's condolence statement today, expressing that he would not withdraw from the Kuomintang. Chen Qingling, who had originally won the nomination for the deputy speaker of the party group, also under Xu Xiurui's persuasion, put the overall situation first, and agreed to withdraw from the election of vice speaker and support Yu Bangyan in the re-election of deputy speaker The position, so that the nominee for the deputy speaker of the Kuomintang League ended in a peaceful and united ending.

Chen Qingling was interviewed and said that Xu Xiurui invited him to withdraw from the long night talk with Yu Bangyan last night. He mentioned that if the Kuomintang group splits internally, the DPP will inevitably reap the benefits of the deputy speaker election. In the second round of voting for the deputy speaker election, he won the seat of deputy speaker with the highest number of votes, so that the KMT would face another defeat. Considering this situation, he decided to withdraw from the election of the deputy speaker, focusing on the overall situation, so that Yu Bangyan could be re-elected as the deputy speaker. speaker.

Chen Qingling said that although he won the "false vote" within the party group, but considering that if the KMT is not united, he fears the infamy of losing the election. Therefore, he decided to take the party's unity as a consideration and withdraw from the election of the deputy speaker, so as not to let the DPP group sit Reap the benefits of the fisherman, and emphasize that he is still a member of parliament and will continue to serve, and will not reduce his service because he is not elected as the deputy speaker.

The election of the KMT’s Hsinchu City Council saw a major turning point. Yu Bangyan, the deputy speaker who originally announced his withdrawal from the KMT yesterday, said today that he has been comforted to stay in the party. Chen Qingling (middle), who won the false vote for the nomination of the deputy speaker within the party group, said that he would put the overall situation first , withdrew from the deputy speaker election.

(Photo by reporter Hong Meixiu)