Unparty Miaoli County Mayor candidate Zhong Dongjin's campaign headquarters spokesperson Chen Yihua compared Zhong Dongjin to former South African president Mandela at a campaign event on the 29th, saying that if a newcomer cannot have the opportunity to start over, then Mandela will not be able to become a great man in the world. Chinese Kuomintang candidate Xie Fuhong pointed out that the metaphor was extremely inappropriate; the green camp Xu Dingzhen criticized that Zhong Dongjin was a gangster who compared himself to saints and great men, and ignored the right and wrong for the vote.
Chen Yihua mentioned at Zhong Dongjin's campaign the night before yesterday that Mandela was ordered to drop out of school when he was in college and served 27 years in prison. However, after he was released from prison, he abolished the apartheid policy and practiced true democracy and equality. If the newborn cannot be reborn, then Mandela would not become a well-known world great man.
Chen Yihua said that the "legislator" of the DPP took out the criminal case of Zhong Dongjin more than 30 years ago, and expanded the appearance and said that it was a gangster, but as long as people in Miaoli know, Zhong Dongjin has donated more than NT$1 in salary in more than three years to help high-performance and disadvantaged school children. Life experience and spirit of hard work are worth learning from.
Regarding Chen Yihua's metaphor, Xie Fuhong said that the human rights fighter Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to change racial discrimination, and the starting point is social equality and public interests; Zhong Dongjin was sent to jail because of fighting in groups and kicking people to death, or using a watermelon knife to chop people, which is completely different from Mandela, and the metaphor is extremely inappropriate.
Xu Dingzhen said that Mandela was a "political prisoner" who led the anti-apartheid movement, fought for freedom and democracy, and was forced to serve his sentence. Zhong Dongjin committed a major social case of "injury and death". It was ridiculous that Zhong Dongjin's camp compared Mandela. This metaphor would only shame Taiwan.
Zhong Dongjin's camp responded sarcastically to Xie and Xu. Because the opponent's camp is doing everything he wants to elect, he keeps digging out the scars of others 3 or 40 years ago. It is a good story that is positive and upward, but it is deliberately framed and smeared because of the ugly mentality of the opponent, which makes people helpless and regretful. I believe that voters' eyes are sharp. (Xue Yang/Edited)
