The founder of Hon Hai Group, Terry Gou, ended his visit to the United States early and returned to China to hold a press conference on "Taiwan Needs a Great CEO", announcing his bid for the KMT's presidential nomination.

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[Reporter Shi Xiaoguang/Taipei Report] Former Hon Hai Chairman Terry Gou held a press conference today, announcing that he will seek the KMT’s nomination for the presidential election, and appeals to the public to express their sole support for Terry Gou when they receive phone calls from polls. Call for polls for presidential candidates.

In this regard, Hong Mengkai, chairman of the Kuomintang Cultural Communication Association, said that as far as he knows, the call for polls should not have started yet, but the Kuomintang think tanks have been conducting polls, and the polls will not be announced to the public, and will continue to roll As an objective reference indicator for recruiting presidential candidates.

As for the exact time for the recruitment of presidential candidates, Hong Mengkai did not give an answer, only saying that the recruitment will be completed before the completion of the third stage of nominations for legislators on June 18.

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The Central Committee of the KMT passed the presidential nomination on March 22 through recruitment. At that time, the Party Central Committee explained to the outside world that the relevant presidential nomination method will be submitted to the Central Committee for approval after the recent research is completed.

Hong Mengkai and Lin Jiaxing, spokesperson of the Kuomintang Cultural Communication Association, said this morning that the Central Committee has passed the recruitment method and will not send another recruitment method to the Central Committee for approval. When the time comes, the Party Central Committee will directly announce the candidates for the recruitment based on internal poll data. .

But in the afternoon, the KMT changed its tune again. Lin Jiaxing said, "If there is any research on the relevant special nomination method, it will be reported and passed in the regular meeting."

A person in the blue camp said that the relevant polls are purely internal polls, and the Party Central Committee should not make them public in the future.

However, some people in the party hold different views, worrying that this practice may cause the outside world to question the black box operation, so the Kuomintang Central Committee has not yet reached a conclusion.

Xu Yuzhen, chairman of the Kuomintang Organization Committee, pointed out that the recruitment method, schedule, and poll work are still in internal work, and there is currently no definite time.