Xu Qiaoxin, a member of the Taipei KMT, announced that he will run for the 2024 Shanshan Legislative Election.

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[Reporter Lin Liangsheng/Taipei Report] Several Taipei city councilors from the Kuomintang have thrown out the alternation of generations, and expressed their stance to run for the legislature, challenging the incumbent veteran. Doesn't the incumbent take priority?

However, some Mesozoic legislators pointed out that Beishi councilor Xu Qiaoxin's strategy is to raise the voice, which is a primary election strategy, and one cannot say who is right and who is wrong.

KMT Taipei city councilors Xu Qiaoxin, You Shuhui, Zhang Sigang, Xu Hongting, who were elected in the nine-in-one election at the end of last year, successively expressed their intention to run for the 2024 legislative election. Fei Hongtai and Lai Shibao, senior KMT legislators with many years of experience, set off a storm of "alternation of generations" in the blue camp.

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It is understood that under the "encouragement" that Wang Hongwei, a member of the KMT legislator, can still be elected as a member of the legislator by-election, the blue camp believes that the situation of switching to the legislator after being elected as a member has little impact on the election situation. Many young and middle-aged Members are eager to try, and there may be an alliance. Not only in Taipei, but also in other counties and cities in the future, more young and strong councilors may express their views and participate in the election of legislators.

In Taipei City, there is a generational dispute of "lower overcomes upper", but it may not easily spill over to other counties and cities. According to the analysis of a northern Kuomintang legislator, the Taipei City Legislative District is smaller than the Councilor District, but in other counties and cities, the Congressional District is often smaller than the Legislative District. They are much smaller, and the strength of the legislators is so strong that it is very difficult to challenge the incumbent legislators. In addition, Taipei City has a media advantage, and the legislators with high exposure often have national popularity and are more likely to threaten the incumbent legislators.

Young and strong Taipei City councilors challenge the current senior legislators, splitting is inevitable. Some people in the party have proposed that senior legislators be placed on the non-regional list to avoid splits. Discussion on the list of committee members requires the current senior legislators to seek a high-uncertainty non-regional arrangement instead of fighting for re-election. It is very difficult, and it also makes coordination impossible. Primary elections are almost inevitable.

It is not that the legislators of the Kuomintang in Taipei have not been challenged in the primary elections, and "alteration of generations" is not a new appeal, but this time there has been a backlash within the party. Some party insiders believe that Xu Qiaoxin's offensive against Fei Hongtai was urgent and fierce, and he did not show mercy. It's like a struggle.

Some senior legislators said that when these members were elected last year, the incumbent was given priority. They had not been baptized in the primary election.

An unnamed Mesozoic legislator from the Kuomintang believes that Xu Qiaoxin's offensive against Fei Hongtai is just to hype the publicity. But it doesn't mean that if there is a sound volume, it will qualify.