boots have finally landed. The Democratic Progressive Party held a press conference on the 13th "Double North, Double Arrows, Hand in Hand to Move Forward" (Double North refers to Taipei and New Taipei ), introducing Taipei mayoral nominee Chen Shizhong and New Taipei mayoral nominee Lin Jialong.
Tsai Ing-wen, who is also the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party, said that in the early days of the epidemic, Chen Shizhong and Lin Jialong worked together to keep the virus out of the country. In the future, the "Double North and Double Arrows" formed by them will definitely join forces to create a new situation for the overall development of northern Taiwan. Their opponents are the Kuomintang candidate for Taipei mayor Chiang Wanan and the current Kuomintang mayor of New Taipei City Hou Youyi.
Tainan Mayor Huang Weizhe specifically used the "Longzhong Pair" written by Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period to describe Lin Jialong and Chen Shizhong as forming the so-called "Dragon Pair". But can the Democratic Progressive Party’s “Dragon-in-Dragon Pair” really conquer the two countries?
In the annual county and mayor elections, the Shuangbei City constituency is the top priority, because Taipei City is the political, economic and cultural center of Taiwan, and New Taipei City is the most populous "municipal municipality". It is generally believed that as long as you win these two cities and do not lose too much in other counties and cities, the county and mayor election will be considered a win. In 2018, the DPP not only failed to win back Taipei City, which had lost power for 20 years, but also failed to win back New Taipei City, which had lost power for 12 years. It also fell from the 13 counties and cities it won in 2014 to only the remaining In six counties and cities: Taoyuan, Tainan, Keelung City, Hsinchu City, Chiayi County, and Pingtung County, Tsai Ing-wen was forced to resign as chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party.
(From left to right, the current deputy mayors of Taipei City, Huang Shanshan, Jiang Wanan and Chen Shizhong, who are supported by the People’s Party)
The two people sent this time are so-called "little British boys", especially Chen Shizhong and Tsai Ing-wen have a close relationship close. His father is Chen Qiyan, a professor at the Department of Law at National Taiwan University, and was Tsai Ing-wen’s teacher. At the end of 2011, Tsai Ing-wen ran for the first time. Chen Shizhong served as the "General Secretary of the Tsai Ing-wen Medical Support Association" as a consultant to the National Association of Dentists and a director of Taipei Medical University. He led the medical community to hold a thousand-person event at the Grand Hotel. The gala was held to create momentum and gained Tsai Ing-wen's attention.
Chen Shizhong said at a press conference on the 13th, "I am reluctant to give up for Taipei, because Taipei deserves better" and promised to "make Taipei a leader and a dazzling city." Lin Jialong shouted, "Mayor Hou Youyi, please accept my challenge post!"
However, Chen Shizhong is now being questioned, especially when the epidemic situation in Taiwan is still severe, but he has failed to choose a mayor. On the 13th, the Kuomintang listed Chen Shizhong's "ten irresponsible crimes", including "ignoring the epidemic and causing a breach", "allowing people to coexist with the virus without preparing anything" and "wrong anti-epidemic policies, which have led to the death of countless people." Unjust death" etc. On the 13th, there were 29,849 new locally confirmed cases and 62 imported cases on the island, as well as 49 new local deaths.
The latest data released by the British "Economist" shows that Taiwan's epidemic prevention ranking has declined, with 6,362 more deaths than expected in June, an excess of 43%. Such a "report card" is really not eye-catching. At this moment, Chen Shizhong ran to shoulder the election responsibility of the Democratic Progressive Party and evaded responsibility for Taiwan's major setback in epidemic prevention. His "blame theory" became a big joke. No wonder Taiwanese public opinion calls him a "soft man in fighting the epidemic."
Let’s look at the polls again. A latest poll showed that Chen Shizhong temporarily ranked first in the Taipei mayoral election with a support rate of 25.8%, followed by Jiang Wanan, who represented the Kuomintang, with 21.8%, and Huang Shanshan, who supported the People's Party, ranked last with 18.8%. As a result, the poll sparked heated debate, with a large number of netizens expressing disapproval. Some people even questioned that the poll results showed that many Taipei citizens have suffered from "brain fog" in IQ due to the impact of the new coronavirus.
A poll conducted by Zhongshi News Network on the New Taipei City mayoral election showed that Hou Youyi of the Kuomintang defeated Lin Jialong with a favorable rating of nearly 93%. A Yahoo News poll also showed that Hou's approval rating was 78.8%, which was better than Lin's 12.4%. The gap between the two sides was quite shocking. At this time, Taiwanese netizens warned, "Be careful that the DPP's plan to destroy the marquis begins."
The people on the island have sharp eyes. Taiwan's epidemic prevention has been chasing the virus, and the so-called "advance deployment" is completely empty talk.There are countless questions in the minds of the people: What responsibility has Chen Shizhong shouldered? In the past two and a half years, people have only seen him hiding vaccine black boxes, infection numbers, and illegal screening tests, but they have never seen him shoulder political responsibility.
runs faster than the virus. No wonder Chen Shizhong is unpopular. However, there are still four months until the election polling day. There is no way to say who will win before the votes are released, but what is certain is that the Shuangbei mayoral election will definitely be an extremely fierce battle.
