Regarding the Taipei mayoral election in 2022, You Yinglong, chairman of the "Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation", said in an interview with the Hong Kong China Review News Agency that the current blue and green selection is about 30%. Taipei Vice Mayor Huang Shanshan may still rise after announcing her candidacy, and the election situation will be very tense. Former DPP Tainan County Mayor Su Huanzhi has announced his candidacy, which will bring variables to the election. Su Huanzhi will definitely affect the green camp votes. If Su Huanzhi gets 50,000 votes, it will change the situation and threaten DPP Taipei Mayor candidate Chen Shizhong.
Su Huanzhi
Currently, there are 5 people who have announced their candidacy for Taipei City, including Jiang Wan'an, Democratic Progressive Party Chen Shizhong, Taipei City Deputy Mayor Huang Shanshan, lawyers Tong Wenxun and Su Huanzhi, who specialize in Tsai Ing-wen's thesis. Su Huanzhi held a press conference on the 29th to announce his candidacy for the mayor of Taipei. More than 20 people including You Yinglong, chairman of the "Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation", Taitung County Councillor Lin Tantian, and non-party mayor of Tainan, who was not in charge of the green camp, attended the event, and it was lively.
You Yinglong analyzed that based on various poll information, the blue and green votes were about 30%. Huang Shanshan has not officially announced her candidacy, and the election may grow again after the announcement, so she becomes a three-legged and tense election situation. Now Su Huanzhi is here again, casting a super variable for this election battle in Taipei City, which will make this election battle more intense and meaningful. The biggest beneficiary is the voters in Taipei City.
You Yinglong said that the Taipei mayoral election in 2022 was very meaningless, and now the blue and green candidate Chen Shizhong, who announced his candidacy, said, "I will take it away when the responsibility comes." Jiang Wan'an spoke hesitantly. Both of them came to take on the tasks of the party, and their vision for Taipei City is very empty. The appearance of Su Huanzhi may make the candidates of the two major parties dare not be careless or talk about the May 43rd, but Su Huanzhi will face a very difficult election battle.
You Yinglong pointed out that in fact, the 2022 Taipei mayoral election is an unprecedented opportunity for the DPP to win the election, but it has encountered many problems. Many effects have been spread from the controversy caused by the DPP Taoyuan mayor candidate Lin Zhijian, which will continue to spread, which will cause traditional supporters of the DPP to have different choices when voting, and may not necessarily vote for the candidates nominated by the DPP. Su Huanzhi will affect the traditional supporters of the DPP and neutral voters.
You Yinglong believes that in fact, Su Huanzhi does not need to get too many votes, because the election situation is very tense. If Su Huanzhi plays the key minority, it will cause subtle changes in the election. On the one hand, it will make other Taipei mayor candidates propose political views more seriously and responsibly in the face of this election. On the other hand, as long as Su Huanzhi takes away 50,000 votes, it will change the situation and threaten Chen Shizhong.
Public information shows that in the 2001 county and city mayor election, Su Huanzhi represented the Democratic Progressive Party to run for the 4 county magistrate of Taiwan Nan County, and was successfully elected with more than 270,000 votes. He ran for re-election again in 2005. In 2018, Su Huanzhi issued a statement that "Taiwan can't wait any longer", announcing his withdrawal from the Democratic Progressive Party and running for the mayor of Taipei as an independent, saying that his run for election was to accelerate the rescue of less birth, but he did not register to run for the election in the end.
This time, Su Huanzhi was asked why he was running for the mayor of Taipei again. He said that Taipei is a youth problem, and all political parties have introduced strong bases and strong troops. "My run for the election is like Don Quixote, who speaks for the young people in Taipei City for a sense of mission." (Xue Yang/Edited)
