Lai Ching-te attended the DPP’s New Taipei Mayor Candidate Lin Jialong on the evening of the 29th, did his homework, and counted the data to attack the Kuomintang New Taipei Mayor Hou Youyi ineffectively governing. Hong Kong media observation pointed out that Lai Ching-te's intention is an open secret in 2024, and South Taiwan is already Lai Ching-te's pocket. If he can further take root in New Taipei and defeat his potential opponent Hou Youyi first, he will gain the advantage.
It is reported that Lai Qingde started the 2022 auxiliary selection campaign starting from September 15th, and he chose New Taipei City in the first battle. He accompanied Lin Jialong to visit the Fude Palace in Shenqiu, Banqiao, which is enough to show Lai Qingde's importance to New Taipei City. On the evening of the 29th, Lin Jialong held his first large-scale campaign with a scale of more than 1,000 people. Lai Qingde returned to New Taipei to replace Lin Jialong's platform. On the one hand, he raised Lin Jialong, and on the other hand, he also took root and warmed up his New Taipei City.
Lin Jialong held the "New Peking University Renovation Gala" at Sanchong Sunflower Square on the 29th, announcing the establishment of the Sanchong joint campaign headquarters with the Democratic Progressive Party "legislator" Yutian . The members of the meeting included Lai Ching-te, Yu Tian, DPP legislator Lin Shufen, as well as DPP New Taipei City Councilor Chen Qineng, Li Qianping, Li Yudian, Li Kuncheng, Peng Jiayun, etc. The hosts are Democratic Progressive Party’s “legislators” Luo Zhizheng and Su Qiaohui. The security guards looked tense, and the security check was not leaking. People had to go through the security check before entering the venue. The chairs in the venue were turned over one by one to check whether there were any foreign objects underneath. It is said that as long as there is a place where Ching-te is located, it will be more "inconvenient".
"China Review News Agency" believes that South Taiwan is already the iron-telling area of Lai Ching-de. If it can capture the New Taipei City with a population of up to 4 million and the largest in Taiwan, it is very important for Lai Ching-de to challenge the "big position". Lai Ching-te focuses on New Taipei City, and has several innate advantages, including Lai Ching-te's origins from Wanli District, New Taipei City; in addition, New Taipei is the first stop for many people in South Taiwan to "drift in North China", among which Yunlin, Chiayi and Changhua are the mainstays, Lai Ching-te's charm to South Taiwan also has the opportunity to copy it to New Taipei.
In 2018, former New Taipei Mayor of the Kuomintang, Zhu Lilun, expired. At that time, many analysts believed that Lai Ching-te was very suitable for running for the mayor of New Taipei. If Lin Jialong can achieve good results in New Taipei City with Lai Qingde's active support, Lai Qingde's 2024 outpost battle will undoubtedly be the first to get the lead.
But "China Review News Agency" also pointed out that, as Lai Qingte is now working hard on New Taipei City, he should also pay attention to whether he will be tied to Lin Jialong instead. Lai Qingde's strong support is so strong that if Lin Jialong's votes were lost too much to Hou Youyi in the end, Lai Qingde's offensive against New Taipei might become a "boomerang" and hit him, which would damage his reputation as a super ticket sucking machine.
Especially when Su Zhenchang, the administrative agency of the DPP, ran for the mayor of New Taipei in 2018, Lai Ching-te was also quite active in the auxiliary election of New Taipei City, but in the end, Su Zhen-chang only received 870,000 votes (42.8% of the votes), Hou You-yi won 1.16 million votes (57% of the votes), and the DPP lost nearly 300,000 votes, which made the old county magistrate Su Zhen-chang look dull. Lai Ching-te, who was the head of the administrative agency at the time, also chose to step down for the overall election failure of the DPP.
Now Hou Youyi has been mayor for four years and has a deeper foundation. If Lai Qingde wants to open up the situation in 2024 by using the support of Lin Jialong to open up the situation in 2024, it may not be easy for him to add the current objective environment. (Source: China Review News Agency)
