According to Taiwan's "United Daily", Wu Bizhu, who has served as the fifth-term Taipei City Speaker, confirmed in an interview today that she has confirmed that she has given up her re-election and will announce it to all party members at the Kuomintang Taipei City Council Party and Catholic Conference at noon tomorrow. Wu Bizhu said that for her, the most important battle has been completed, and her life should end at the best time. She can walk around while she is still brave and healthy.
After Wu Bizhu was confirmed to hand over the baton, it was reported that it included the current deputy speaker Chen Jinxiang, senior party member Ouyang Long , Qin Huizhu and former party secretary Wang Xinyi, both intend to compete for the throne of the speaker. In the deputy speaker's part, it was reported that the local members include members Que Meisha and Ye Lin, who intend to take over the baton, and the heroes will rise together.
In addition, because Wu Bizhu gave up his re-election, the nominations of the Kuomintang Taipei City Neihu Nangang District and Shilin Beitou District City Councillors are expected to resume the original local assessment situation. The current announcement of the announcement of the nomination of 4 seats increased by 1 seat, and the nomination of 5 seats was changed to expand the space for new candidates to run for election.
, a prominent family of Shilin and has served as a Taipei City Council member for 37 years, was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the 7th Taipei City Council in 1994. Four years later, he further won the 8th Taipei City Council Speaker. He was re-elected as the Speaker of the 8th Taipei City Council since then, and has been re-elected to the Speaker for five years. He has served for the term of former mayors Ma Ying-jeou, Hao Longbin and the current mayor Ke Wen-je 3 mayors, and has always been regarded as an important stability force in the parliament.
However, at the beginning of this year, when Wu Bizhu was interviewed by this newspaper, she asked for her first time to consider her personal career plan and hoped to give young people a chance to think carefully about giving up her re-election at the end of the year. Wu's movements have attracted great attention from the party. Not only did the party's senior officials frequently persuade him to stay, but members of the parliamentary party group also invited Wu to stay after afternoon tea.
It was also because Wu Bizhu gave up her re-election idea. Recently, the Party Central Committee decided to respect Wu Bizhu's proposal to conservatively nominate at the end of the year, but it caused an uproar. However, after a long-term exam, Wu Bizhu still decided to give up her re-election and announced it at the Kuomintang caucus meeting held at 11 a.m. tomorrow before the Taipei City Council held its meeting in the afternoon.
Wu Bizhu said that she expected to report to the party and league members not to elect in her speech at about 12:40 noon after the discussion of the party and league meeting tomorrow.
As for whether the election of speaker or local councillors will support specific newcomers after giving up re-election? Wu Bizhu said that all the colleagues and newcomers of the parliament are brothers and sisters to her. After she gave up her re-election, she will not support specific targets, but emphasized that the party's Taipei City Council election and the party's chief and deputy speaker election will still try her best to assist in the election.
Because Wu Bizhu's decision suddenly, the party hopes that Wu can choose another term. Wu Bizhu said in an interview that she began to consider giving up re-election 8 years ago and was always persuaded to stay. For her, the most important battle has long been completed, "life should end at the best time." Otherwise, she would have been 73 years old when she retired.
Wu Bizhu said that while she is still healthy and can still walk around, she wants to retreat and live her own life. This is her current career plan.
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