Source: Global Times
[Global Times Special Correspondent Chen Lifei] The "nine-in-one" election of grassroots public officials in Taiwan was voted on the 26th, electing county, city mayors, councillors, township mayors, village mayors, etc. According to the vote count of the Taiwan authorities' competent election, in addition to the mayoral election of Chiayi for some reason, among the 21 elected counties and cities, the Kuomintang won 13 seats, the Democratic Progressive Party won 5 seats, the Popular Party won 1 seat, and the other 2 seats are non-party.
.57 million votes won the election
In this election, the competition for the mayor of Taipei is undoubtedly the most concerned. After the vote was issued at 4 pm on the 26th, Jiang Wanan, a candidate for the Kuomintang , won the election with more than 570,000 votes (42% of the votes). When Jiang Wanan announced his election on the 26th, he excitedly hugged his father Jiang Xiaoyan and his mother Huang Meilun and shouted "We did it." He also thanked his competitor Chen Shizhong, a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, and Huang Shanshan, an independent member of the Party, for their advice during the election process. "Thank you for those who voted for me and handed over Taipei to me in the next four years; I also thanked me for the encouragement given to me by not casting me. Every vote reminds the municipal government team in the future to be humble and harder." Jiang Wanan also became the youngest mayor of Taipei.
Jiang Wanan was born in Taipei City in 1978. He studied at Taiwan University , received a doctorate degree in law from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, and obtained a practicing lawyer in California in the United States in 2007. He later engaged in IPO (initial public offering) and other businesses. In 2011, he founded a legal firm in , San Francisco, and others. In 2015, Jiang Wan'an registered for the 9th "Legislator" primary election of the Kuomintang's third election district in Taipei City, and before the primary election, he took the initiative to go to the US Association in Taiwan to give up the US green card. Later, he defeated the Luo Shulei , who once defeated his father Jiang Xiaoyan, which was also called the "Prince Revenge" by the media on the island. In May this year, the Kuomintang nominated Jiang Wanan for mayor of Taipei, and on November 10, he resigned two weeks before the election.
does not receive special treatment
Life experience has always been a controversy that Jiang Wanan can't avoid. He once said that he learned at the age of 10 that he was a descendant of the Jiang family and had very little interaction with other fourth generations of the Jiang family. In 2000, his father and his family returned to Fenghua, Zhejiang to recognize his ancestors and return to his hometown. In 2005, Jiang Jingguo's wife Jiang Fangliang died, Zhang Xiaoyan and his children officially changed their surname to Jiang. In an interview in 2016, Jiang Wanan admitted that in the atmosphere of "de-Chiang's transformation" and "anti-power" on the island, the identity of descendants of the Jiang family "is a help and a resistance" to his election, emphasizing that he did not grow up in the Jiang family and did not receive special treatment.
In this "nine-in-one" election, Jiang Wan'an's life experience was hyped again. The famous pro-green Zhou Yuko claimed that his father Jiang Xiaoyan was not a descendant of the Jiang family. Huang Shanshan, an independent Taipei mayor candidate, implicitly mocked him for his reliance on his bloodline and party certificate. Another Taipei mayor candidate, Su Huanzhi, went to the Taipei Higher Administrative Court on October 6 to apply for a false punishment for the temporary status to the Taipei Municipal Government, demanding that Jiang Xiaoyan's "biological father Jiang Ching-kuo's claim registration" be revoked before the October 21 election lottery draw and restore Jiang Wan'an to the surname "Zhang". However, Su Huanzhi's false punishment was rejected. Senior media person Zhang Jingwei analyzed that Zhou Yukou is simply a "super electoral assistant", and her pursuit of Jiang Wan'an's life experience has caused her to escape sensitive issues such as the "Zhongzheng Memorial Hall".
is the beginning of the test after being elected
Jiang Wanan's wife Shi Fanggen has also played an important role in his political journey. Shi Fanggen is Jiang Wanan's senior sister when he was in Taiwan University of Political Science. The two registered their marriage in California, USA in 2008 after ten years of love. They have now had two sons. On November 16, Shi Fanggeng, who was pregnant with his third child, went to the Dongsanshui Street Market in Wanhua District, Taipei to pay a vote, which moved his supporters very much. Senior media person Luo Wangzhe said that in previous "legislator" elections, Shi Fanggen has always been Jiang Wanan's strongest backing, and the scenes seen in the 2020 "legislator" election still impressed him. At that time, the weather in Taipei was cold. In the cold wind and drizzle, Jiang Wan'an and his wife were wearing raincoats, standing at the street intersection, sweeping the market, and getting on the chariot almost every day. The two of them even had their voices hoarse in the end.
Luo Wangzhe is a political reporter who mainly runs the Jiang Wan'an line. After several months of observation, he believes that Jiang's victory is due to the word "sincerity".Once, when the city council candidates standing next to Jiang Wanan in an interview, all the candidates for the city council who were standing next to Jiang Wanan left, Jiang and his accompanying staff continued to shake hands with the public and voted, "Every vote he issued was almost done with his own hands, one pair after another."
The China Times said on the 27th that Jiang Wanan has been criticizing the Jiang family and questioning his life experience have never stopped, but it has not become a burden. Perhaps because he is the "fourth generation of the Jiang family who is not the least of the Jiang family". He did not enjoy the halo and resources of the Jiang family in his early years. He was unemployed for a whole year when he was looking for a job in the United States. His situation was far from that of the Jiang family's direct descendants. It is undeniable that if he had no surname Chiang, the Kuomintang might have ignored him, but the achievements of his careful maintenance of his image and running the grassroots level "are the main reason why the Kuomintang cannot ignore him and directly recruit him to run for election." The article believes that being elected as mayor of Taipei is the beginning of the test. Jiang Wanan must be the "Jiang Wanan, a citizen of Taipei", rather than "Jiang Wanan, a Jiang Wanan, a member of the Jiang family" or "KMT Jiang Wanan". Especially in this election, his advantage is not overwhelming.
