( Observer Network ) According to Taiwan's United Daily News and China Times News Network today (20th), the "nine-in-one" election in Taiwan entered the last Sunday before the election, the Taipei mayor candidate Chen Shizhong launched the so-called "Take care for Taipei and walk for love" parade this afternoon. But about an hour before the event, a man suddenly rushed into the propaganda car with a knife, threatening the staff to hand over the microphone, and wanted to harm himself. After causing chaos at the scene, the man was controlled by police using chili water and was taken away from the scene.
Screenshot of Taiwan's United Daily News report
Taiwan's "nine-in-one" election will be held on November 26. There are 9 types of "local public officials elections", 6 " mayors directly under the jurisdiction of ", 16 county (city) mayors, 910 "municipalities directly under the jurisdiction of municipals" and county (city) councillors, 204 township (town, city) mayors and indigenous district mayors, 2,139 township (town, city) representatives and indigenous district representatives, and 7,748 village (limb) mayors, a total of 11,023 local "public officials".
20 is the last Sunday before the election. According to China Times News Network, Taipei mayor's election is tense, and the fierce battle of the candidates has attracted much attention from the outside world. Today, Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shizhong held a grand parade in the afternoon; non-party candidate Huang Shanshan will hold a striking event in the evening; Kuomintang candidate Jiang Wanan also said in an interview that he would go to Linjiang Night Market and Tonghua business district in the evening and invite people to visit the night market together.
However, the so-called "Take care for Taipei and go for love" march initiated by Chen Shizhong had an unexpected event. According to United Daily News and China Times News Network, the parade is scheduled to gather in front of the "DPP Central Party Headquarters" before 14:00 pm and walk all the way toward the Taipei Municipal Government. However, at around 13:00 pm, a man surnamed Liu, who was carrying a utility knife, suddenly passed through the crowd and the police force, and rushed to the propaganda car parked in the middle of the road.
Liu, who rushed into the propaganda car, pictured from "United Daily"
According to China Times News Network, Liu threatened the staff to hand over the microphone and let him preach political demands, causing chaos on the scene. The United Daily News also said that Liu stood in the propaganda car with a knife and then wanted to use the knife to harm himself.
At this time, the police who had previously deployed next to the propaganda car began to act. One of them first hugged Liu's arms from behind and shouted "Let the knife down" to prevent Liu from waving the utility knife in his hand; four policemen climbed into the car one after another and sprayed pepper water. It took a lot of effort to suppress Liu. Liu struggled hard but failed, so he lay down in the car with force and handcuffed by the police.
Liu was taken away by the police, picture from Zhongshi News Network
According to Taiwanese media, 39-year-old Liu lives in Taoyuan, without political party colors and no job. He took a bus from Taoyuan to the north today and sneaked into the parade of Chen Shizhong's camp in the afternoon. He claimed to have political ideas, but no one paid attention to him, so he wanted to climb into the propaganda car and grab the microphone to preach. After being controlled by the police on the scene, Liu was taken back to the police station and carried the knife for no reason. The police will send it to the police in accordance with the "Social Order Maintenance Law".
It is worth mentioning that due to the tense election in Taipei City, Chen Shizhong went to the Huguang Market in Neihu District this morning to pay a vote. However, according to the United Daily News, before others entered the market, people immediately yelled in front of the team, "How can you (Chen Shizhong) be embarrassed to come out and choose?" After he entered the market, he was scolded by the woman, "Do you want to know who hates you? Did you see it here?"
In addition, according to China Times News Network, Taiwan's "Minister of Health and Welfare" Xue Ruiyuan recently defended Chen Shizhong, claiming that Chen Shizhong's hatred value is because his decisions on purchasing quick screening, vaccine and other blocked people's financial resources, and did not buy vaccines from brokers. His remarks were questioned by the outside world to play a double act with Chen Shizhong. The "Blue Committee" even called out to Xue Ruiyuan, asking him to explain whose financial path Chen Shizhong was blocking. Chen Shizhong was also asked about this by the media when he was in Neihu today. However, Chen Shizhong still did not let go of the statement who the broker was, and only asked Xue Ruiyuan for details.
Chen Shizhong avoided talking about this and made Xue Ruiyuan "escort" the controversy still continues. China Times News Network released a comment on the evening of the 20th, criticizing Xue Ruiyuan.In this commentary titled "Please make it clear", China Times News Network pointed out that Xue Ruiyuan's words and deeds were also election operations, and pointed out that the "high-end" had just scrapped 1.6 million doses of vaccines, and 130 million fast-screen reagents on the island will expire, not to mention that the 20 million doses of next-generation vaccines bought this year are also unpopular. The truth about these wasted public funds is "to help manufacturers open up financial channels in disguise." The current commentary bluntly stated that "wrong decisions are more terrible than corruption." Xue Ruiyuan did not think about reflecting and was still in a state of being too arrogant. He made the "Ministry of Health and Welfare" a political tool for elections.
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