Zhushi Administrative Director Xie Bohong's affair object Lin Yixuan (middle) is a party worker of the People's Party Secretariat, and served as a member of the Central Committee and a voter for the election of the People's Party Congress on the 14th of this month.

(The picture is taken from Voice of the People YouTube)

[Reporter Huang Jingyu/Taipei Report] Hsinchu City Administrative Director Xie Bohong, who took office at the same time as Hsinchu Mayor Gao Hongan, handed in his resignation today after less than a month in office because of an extramarital affair with a married party worker Lin Yixuan who was exposed by a weekly magazine.

In this regard, the People's Party Department stated that the party department has no prior knowledge of the private sector, and this part respects the parties involved in handling and facing it.

The party branch of the People's Party stated that Xie Bohong's professional performance during his tenure in the party branch was obvious to all. As for the private sector, he did not know anything about it beforehand.

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Xie Bohong was the confidential secretary of the mayor's office of Taipei City Hall and the director of the People's Party Secretariat before he became the chief of the Zhushi City Administration. Lin Yixuan, who had an affair with him, was a party worker of the People's Party Secretariat and was a member of the People's Party on the 14th of this month. During the Congress, she served as a member of the Central Committee and a member of the Central Committee of Judges to elect the voter. Netizens who watched the live broadcast of the vote counting at that time called her "the girl who draws the votes" and "can come out and be a spokesperson."