Democratic Progressive Party member Zhang Jia-am has been diagnosed. He will take the oath and vote tomorrow. Who will scrutinize the votes will become a topic.

(The picture is taken from Zhang Jia’s Facebook page)

[Reporter Tang Zaixin/Taichung Report] Taichung City Councilor Zhang Jia-an from the Democratic Progressive Party announced her diagnosis yesterday. Although it will not affect her swearing-in and voting for the Speaker and Deputy Speaker tomorrow, but because of Zhang Jia-an's diagnosis, who will wear a full set of protective clothing to monitor her votes when she votes?

Wu Qionghua, secretary general of the Kuomintang League, said that it should be the responsibility of the DPP, while He Wenhai, the chief summoner of the DPP League, said "still looking".

The Taichung City Council has a total of 65 city councilors, 32 from the KMT, 24 from the Democratic Progressive Party, 7 from the Non-Party Party, and 1 from the Power of the Times and the People's Party. The Democratic Progressive Party launched Zeng Chaorong and Chen Shuhua to run in the election, and the KMT called out to strive to get 40 votes, which means that apart from the DPP and Wu Peiyun, a power of the times who has announced that it will vote for itself, the KMT will win the People's Party, which has announced that it will vote for the KMT The new member Jiang Heshu and the other 7 non-party members will all get support votes if there is no accident.

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Under the circumstances of disparity in strength, the election of the chairman and deputy speaker tomorrow is relatively simple in Taichung, but yesterday it was reported that Zhang Jiayu was diagnosed. The city council stated that the Ministry of the Interior had previously formulated a set of rules for how to take an oath and vote for the chairman and deputy speaker if a member of each county and city has a confirmed diagnosis. The method is that Zhang Jia-am will enter a prepared room through a separate passage tomorrow. First, he will be sworn in by video conference, and then he will vote separately. He will be accompanied by health bureau personnel and councilors wearing full protective clothing throughout the process.

However, since it has previously been stipulated that vote scrutiny is recommended by various parties, among which the KMT and the Democratic Progressive Party are each selected by members of the party group to send 2 people to scrutinize the votes. The central government still requires that the votes be scrutinized throughout the process, and the Kuomintang has similar requirements. Who will wear protective clothing and be responsible for the scrutiny of Zhangjia’s votes in a separate room tomorrow?

It became a topic; and the parliament also stated that because many members went abroad before the meeting, this time the parliament also asked the four members who returned to the country after the 22nd of this month to quickly screen before voting and taking an oath.

Politicians said that the Tainan City Speaker and Kaohsiung City Speaker elections have been a topic of constant discussion for the past few days. Taichung is relatively simple. They did not expect that the only thing to pay attention to is who will monitor the votes of the confirmed members. This shows how peaceful the election is.

The Taichung City Council has been personally led by Speaker Zhang Qingzhao to conduct a rehearsal on how to vote on the same day if a member of the Taichung City Council is diagnosed. There will be an independent polling place and accompanying personnel.

(Taken from Zhang Qingzhao's Facebook page)