Source: Taiwan Strait Network
Taiwan Strait Network October 19th According to Taiwan media reports, the candidate for the DPP’s New Taipei mayor Lin Jialong was originally determined to choose the mayor of Taipei, but after Tsai Ing-wen persuaded him, he agreed to change to New Taipei . The outside world believes that it is a matter of negotiating the exchange conditions. A person from the Green Camp "Party Congress" privately revealed that he heard Tsai Ing-wen promised that if Lin Jialong chose well in New Taipei, he would have the opportunity to serve as the head of the administrative department after the election. In addition, the same faction mayor Keelung mayor Lin Youchang will also follow him to "enter the cabinet" and play an important role.
Lin Jialong insisted on choosing Taipei City before July, but Tsai Ing-wen wanted Chen Shizhong, who was the head of the health and welfare department at the time, to run for Taipei City. He communicated with Lin Jialong many times and finally successfully convinced Lin Jialong, hoping to use Lin's high popularity to block the strongest New Taipei Mayor Hou Youyi , and to smash Hou's spirit of directly attacking the 2024 Taiwan leadership election. The outside world believes that Lin Jialong is willing to switch to New Taipei to fight this unpopular election, which may be because Tsai Ing-wen promised Lin Jialong to arrange a "appropriate" position after the election, so that he could return to the DPP authorities.
"Party Congress" person revealed that it was rumored that Tsai Ing-wen promised Lin Jialong that even if he did not win, as long as he lowered Hou Youyi's number of votes to win, even if he met the standards, he would be willing to let Lin Jialong "form" and serve as the " guardian cabinet ". In addition, Lin Youchang, who is also a "Party Congress", can also "enter the cabinet".
"Party Congress" person said that the current head of the administrative department is Su Zhenchang, and most of the departments are "Su Group" personnel, and the faction is not balanced. Tsai Ing-wen actually cares a lot about personal real power and promises that such conditions like Lin Jialong are actually traceable.
"Party Congress" people pointed out that Lin Jialong's team was obviously at the grassroots level in the early stage of this election, and there were very few public itineraries. The purpose was to maintain the basic market first, and it was not until the middle to find Tsai Ing-wen, Lai Ching-te and Su Zhenchang to help, bringing back the light green vote source. However, when faced with Hou Youyi's team's attack, Lin was underestimated and said that it was "fighting and leading away". This election method can be interpreted as not wanting to arouse too much spark in the "air combat". The purpose is to reduce the turnout rate and prevent Hou Youyi's high polls from being converted into high votes and narrow the gap in votes, so that the "goal" set at the beginning can be achieved.
Insiders of Lin Jialong's team said that if Lin Jialong wants to serve as the "Premier" after the election, the prerequisite is to resign Su Zhenchang, the current head of the administrative department, resign. Su Zhenchang's stay or leave depends on the election situation at the end of the year. Only if the DPP is defeated will Su be responsible for stepping down. If the DPP is selected beautifully by the end of the year, Su Zhenchang should still be able to firmly sit in the position of the head of the administrative department. Even if Lin Jialong "enters" to the cabinet, he will only be arranged to another position.
Green Camp people said that the election at the end of the year will affect the future personnel layout. Although Su Zhenchang and Lin Jialong both hope to win the election, Su Zhenchang's goal is to look at the whole of Taiwan, while Lin Jialong wants to make the New Taipei election beautiful. The relationship between the two is both competitive and cooperative is really subtle. (Zhang Wei/Compiled)
