According to Taiwan's "Dongsen News Cloud" report, Taiwan's "nine-in-one local elections" have entered the final sprint. Many candidates will visit the people in person, but they have also caused a lot of public complaints.
Today, the "nine-in-one" election, the largest "local election" in Taiwan's history, entered the voting phase.
This "nine-in-one" election will elect 11,130 local public officials, setting a new record for the scale of elections in the history of Taiwan's "local" autonomy. Among them, the election competition for the mayors of the "directly-controlled municipalities" in Taipei, New Taipei, Taichung, Taoyuan, Tainan, and Kaohsiung is the most fierce.
The so-called "nine-in-one" refers to 9 specific positions that are elected in one election, including: "municipal" mayor, "municipal" councillor, county mayor, county and city councillor, township mayor, township citizen representative, The head of the village, the head of the mountain aboriginal district of the "municipality" and the representative of the mountain aboriginal district of the "municipality".
The public officials elected this time include not only the "village chiefs" and "village chiefs" who are closely related to the people, but also many political stars from the blue and green camps, such as Lian Shengwen, Zhu Lilun, Hu Zhiqiang, Lai Qingde, etc. .
In the past, Taiwan’s regional leaders, “legislators”, “municipalities”, “local elections” and county and mayor “local elections” were held separately, presenting a situation where elections were held almost every year. In order to change this situation, the Taiwan authorities have carried out major reforms in the past two years. In 2012, they merged the regional leader election and the "legislator" election.
This year’s “nine-in-one” election will enable all “local” level elections to be held on the same day. Elections for "local" public officials will be held every four years starting in 2014.
Before the “nine-in-one” plan, you often heard the talk of “seven-in-one” and “five-city” elections. Taiwan’s “local elections” have evolved from “five cities” to “seven-in-one” and this year’s “nine-in-one”.
The "Five Cities" election refers to the election of the new mayors, city councilors and mayors of the five original or newly established "municipalities" (Taipei City, New Taipei City, Taichung City, Tainan City and Kaohsiung City) . This is the first local quasi "general election" held since Taiwan implemented direct elections in 1996. Elections are held every four years. The last time it was held was on November 27, 2010.
In order to simplify the election process and save money, in 2014, Taiwan merged the "five capital" elections with the elections of other county mayors into a "seven-in-one" election, and later added the "municipal mountain aboriginal district representative and district chief elections" The two items become a "nine-in-one" election.
2014 Taiwan's nine-in-one election results announced
According to statistics from the Taiwan authorities' election authority, among the 22 county mayors, the Chinese Kuomintang won 6 seats, the Democratic Progressive Party won 13 seats, and 3 seats were independent.
Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said in response to inquiries: We have noticed the results of this election. We hope that compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait will cherish the hard-won achievements of cross-Strait relations and jointly safeguard and continue to promote the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations.
Jiang Yihua, the head of Taiwan's administrative agency, announced his resignation on the evening of the 29th to show his responsibility for the defeat of the Kuomintang in the "nine-in-one" election that day. Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou has approved his resignation.
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