Taipei mayor-elect Chiang Wan-an announced yesterday that KMT legislator Lin Yi-hua will serve as deputy mayor, but he will serve in Taipei City Hall in February next year. The vacancy of legislators does not require a by-election, causing controversy.

The picture shows the press conference before the mayor election in Taipei, Jiang Wanan and Lin Yihua interacted enthusiastically.

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Delayed until February next year to take over as deputy mayor of Beishi

[Reporters Chen Zhengyu, Yang Xinhui/Taipei Report] Taipei mayor-elect Chiang Wan-an will take office tomorrow, but Lin Yihua, a KMT legislator who was originally scheduled to be the deputy mayor of Taipei, will not take office until February next year. hold a by-election.

In this regard, DPP spokesperson Xie Peifen, who once ran against Lin for the Legislative Committee in 2020, criticized yesterday that Lin Yihua had exhausted his organization and only for himself. He should resign immediately and go to Beishi government to take office as scheduled on the 25th.

Reluctant to serve Daan District and block others from serving opportunities

Xie Peifen said that Lin Yihua was a legislator elected by the voters of Da'an District with one vote, and it was also Lin's first term as a regional legislator. "Confiscation of by-elections" left Da'an District with no legislators to serve voters for a whole year.

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Xie also said that since Lin Yihua has no intention of continuing to serve the people, he should resign immediately and go to Beishi government to take office as scheduled on the 25th, instead of exhausting all the organs and confiscating the by-election.

"Don't take advantage of the citizens of Taipei, and eat up the tofu of the voters in Da'an District." Xie Peifen criticized that Lin Yihua himself did not want to serve the voters of Da'an District. Self-interested, extremely selfish mentality, do you still have voters in your heart?

Wu Siyao, legislator of the Democratic Progressive Party, was interviewed and analyzed that Lin Yihua's constituency (the sixth electoral district in Taipei City) is the basic base of the KMT. They predicted that the by-election would be easily won by the blue camp, but they chose to take office by avoiding the by-election, which may be due to internal The primary election is not balanced, or the result of political calculations to avoid intra-party conflicts.

Should immediately resign and follow Jiang Wanan to Beishi government office

Wu Siyao directly pointed out that Jiang Wanan's team showed the arrogance of power before taking office, especially Lin Yihua, as the convener of the handover team and the deputy mayor, the first wave of inauguration on the 25th is so important, but because he chose to avoid internal conflicts, he adopted technical confiscation The method of by-elections does not regard the interests of the people as anything.

Democratic Progressive Party member Jian Shupei also criticized that after the 9-in-1 election, the Kuomintang ignored public opinion and did not consider the rights and interests of the citizens of Taipei and Daan District. Originally, the deputy mayor had to take office together with the mayor. In order to wait for Lin Yihua, the deputy mayor had to be vacant for a month. , the party is not balanced, let Lin Yihua delay his appointment, and let Daan District have no legislators for a year. It is really selfish and completely ignores public opinion.