Hong Kong CPM published an article saying that among the three indicator "six capitals" mayors of the Kuomintang, Kaohsiung mayors Han Kuo-yu is involved in the case of resignation, and Taichung mayor Lu Xiuyan fought with the Tsai authorities over the issue of air pollution. When New Taipei Mayor Hou Youyi was interviewed on the 16th, he still avoided talking about "political topics", and only emphasized in a gentle tone that "New Taipei City no longer allows new raw coal, which is the local authority", and his subsequent actions attracted attention.
In the 2018 county and city mayor election, the "spy, swallow, bald" started a local election battle. The friendship between representative figures Hou Youyi, Lu Xiuyan and Han Kuo-yu in the election battle is also regarded as the assets of the Blue Camp 2020 "general election". However, the relationship between the three people after the election in 2018 was frozen. At the end of July 2019, the Kuomintang held a "Percent Congress" in Banqiao, New Taipei City, nominated Han Kuo-yu. Lu Xiuyan initially said that she "don't participate in the other schedule." Later, she could not withstand the pressure of public opinion to attend. However, as a landlord, Hou Youyi still refused to attend on the grounds of the local schedule, and even even joined Han Kuo-yu on the same stage before the election.
After taking office, Hou Youyi insisted on staying away from politics and doing more municipal affairs, and hit it off with the Chairman of the People's Party of Taiwan and Mayor of Taipei Ke Wen-je to promote the "Double North Cooperation". Ke and Hou have also interacted in front of media cameras many times. On the contrary, it is rare to see him being so close to the mayor of the Blue Army County.
The Green Camp has begun to prepare for the 2022 "nine-in-one" election, Han Kuo-yu is facing "removal", and the "Executive Yuan" has announced partially that the "Regulations on Controlling Coal Autonomy" for Lu Xiuyan's continuous fines for Taichung Thermal Power Plant has been partially invalid, but it has not yet made any moves against Hou Youyi. But it is foreseeable that the Executive Yuan declared the "Local Autonomy Regulations" invalid, and the same logic can also be applied to New Taipei City in the future. However, on the 16th, Hou only emphasized that New Taipei City's coal production is "local authority" and did not clearly support Lu Xiuyan.
Hou Youyi has certain political energy in the blue camp, which can be proved by the special visit of Hou Youyi when he visited Taiwan a few days ago. Therefore, whether Hou Youyi supports the removal of Han Kuo-yu in the future, or whether he is in conjunction with Lu Xiuyan to oppose the "Executive Yuan" interfering with local authority, Hou's every move will become the focus.
If Hou Youyi insists on keeping himself alone and not touching political issues, after Han Kuo-yu and Lu Xiuyan are hit and lose their political energy, the DPP will turn around and deal with Hou Youyi's re-election campaign in 2022, Hou may be alone. In 2022, Hou Youyi is also under pressure to be re-elected. In the 2020 "general election", Tsai Ing-wen won 1.39 million votes in New Taipei City, and Han Kuo-yu only 950,000 votes. The Blue Camp not only lost to the Democratic Progressive Party in New Taipei City, but Tsai Ing-wen also received far more than Hou Youyi's 1.165 million votes in 2018.
