According to the Hong Kong China Review News, the Kaohsiung City Council Speaker by-election ended yesterday. Kuomintang Zeng Liyan won more than half of the first round votes with 35 votes and was successfully elected as speaker. However, the deputy speaker Lu Shumei, who had previously failed in the primary election for speaker, suddenly withdrew from the KMT group LINE group. This morning, the party leader Zeng Junjie also issued a resignation statement through the group, and expressed his deep regret for the divisive impression of the by-election party on the outside world. He once said that the phased tasks of the speaker's by-election have been completed and he will shoulder the ups and downs of the process.
Lu Shumei said today through Facebook that she was too busy presiding over the parliament a while ago, which delayed the car accident that had been treated for many years and caused an old illness. It was simply because there were too many messages in the group during the treatment yesterday afternoon and she wanted to rest peacefully. "So I quietly quit the group. I don't know why someone would deliberately sensationalize this matter." She believed that someone deliberately spread the word, and the real purpose is questionable.
It is understood that Lu Shumei left the group at 3:30 pm yesterday, but she did not leave a message before leaving the group. The chief convener of the caucus, Zeng Junjie, did not know the reason for deputy speaker Lu Shumei's withdrawal from the caucus, but if she really wanted to withdraw from the caucus, she would try her best to communicate and comfort her. However, Zeng later issued a statement at about 10 o'clock this morning that he had completed the by-election phase tasks and resigned from the post of general congressman.
