When the Taitung county magistrate election starts next year, DPP Liu Chuhao has still not expressed his position, while his intra-party opponent Lai Kuncheng has already taken action. Liu and Lai are regarded as the "two suns of the green camp in Taitung" because of their different acting styles. Moreover, the "Yuliang complex" has been accumulated for many years and is still difficult to resolve. Some people in the green camp believe that if Lai Kuncheng takes action, it will not pose a high threat to Rao Qingling's re-election, but the election process will be more lively.
Liu Chuhao (left) and Lai Kuncheng
According to Taiwan's "China Times", the relationship between Liu Chuhao and Lai Kuncheng began in 2006 when they competed for the county magistrate by-election. As a result of the Green Camp split, both lost. After the election, the two gradually drifted away. Far away; in 2009, Liu Zaizhan lost to Huang Jianting in the county magistrate election. In the 2010 "legislator" by-election, Lai was recruited by the DPP to be a "legislator" and defeated Kuang Lizhen, winning the Taitung "legislator" seat for the first time for the DPP. , also reached his political peak, but in 2011, he lost to Liu Dahao in the primary election for "legislator" within the party, and the relationship between the two fell to a freezing point.
In the 2014 "general election", Lai was nominated by the Democratic Progressive Party to run for mayor of Taitung again. He was in "alliance" with Liu, who ran for county magistrate four times. Both of them lost. At the end of 2015, Lai insisted on participating in the party's Taitung "establishment" campaign. He lost to Liu in the 2018 county magistrate election. Although Lai once "put the overall situation first" and supported Liu in the county magistrate election in 2018, and the two sides staged a drama of reconciliation, the grievances between the two are still difficult to resolve.
Lai Kuncheng's image of an informal naughty boy made him make many friends, but it also became an obstacle for him to climb to the top of the political ladder. On the other hand, Liu played steadily and behaved in the election process, while Lai Kuncheng often made strange moves, which was observed by voters. , at various events in Taitung, if both Liu and Lai attended, Liu's face would have three lines, which would be even worse than when he and Rao Qingling were in the same frame.
Lai has taken the lead in stating his position in the county magistrate election next year. According to the nomination method recently adopted by the Democratic Progressive Party, interested candidates will first coordinate and finally be recruited by Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen. Since Liu was once a student of Tsai, Lai often Without receiving any attention from the DPP Central Committee, external assessments suggest that Liu has a higher chance of qualifying, and if Lai does qualify, his cannon character may make the election more interesting.
Taitung County is located in the southeast of Taiwan Island, covering an area of 3,515 square kilometers. It is the third largest county in Taiwan after Hualien County and Nantou County. With a population of more than 200,000, it is the county with the lowest population density on the island. . Taitung's political landscape is more blue than green, and recent county magistrates Kuang Lizhen, Huang Jianting, and Rao Qingling are all members of the Chinese Kuomintang. (Xue Yang/Editor)
