According to Global Network , citing reports from media on the island, as the elections approach, candidates from various camps of blue, green and white have stepped up their campaign publicity offensives to win over more voters as much as possible. The most typical one is Chen Shizhong. When the election was in a stalemate, Chen Shizhong and his campaign team started to campaign in Taipei at less than 8 a.m. on October 12, which shows his urgency. However, due to the embarrassing time point, Chen Shizhong actually affected the rest of nearby residents during the campaign in the morning, and was scolded.
At present, the DPP is concentrating on all efforts to overcome Hsinchu . The three major camps of blue, green and white have fallen into a stalemate and tug-of-war in Taipei City. The strategy of the People's Party is to support Huang Shanshan to take down Taipei, successfully hand over the baton with Ke Wen-je , and attack Hsinchu; the Kuomintang is full of big names, and former leader Ma Ying-jeou frequently travels through major cities on the island, criticizing the DPP's energy and cross-strait policies to build momentum for the Kuomintang candidates' election.
Just as major political camps on the island are constantly building momentum for the upcoming elections, one candidate has attracted the attention of the media, that is, the DPP’s New Taipei Mayor candidate Lin Jialong. According to the media on the island, major candidates are constantly running for elections, organizing more campaigns and setting more itineraries. However, Lin Jialong's actions seemed very calm. He was named as the candidate for the mayor of New Taipei by Tsai Ing-wen in July. So far, his public itinerary is very few, and compared with other candidates from various counties and cities on the island, he rarely conducts election momentum. Therefore, many people on the island criticized Lin Jialong for "choose whatever he wants" and "waiting for entering the cabinet".
So what's going on? In fact, Lin Jialong himself attaches great importance to the "nine-in-one" election on the island, but the meaning of it is Taipei, not New Taipei. Compared with the mayor of New Taipei, the position of mayor of Taipei is obviously more important. Taipei City is the administrative center of Taiwan. This alone is enough to crush the heads of other counties and cities on the island. What is more worth noting is that it is easier to move towards the leader of Taiwan through the position of mayor of Taipei. Chen Shui-bian and Ma Ying-jeou both served as mayors of Taipei, and both became the top leaders of their respective parties with this position and successfully won the nomination of the leader of Taiwan, thus starting the election. Therefore, those who have served as mayor of Taipei can be said to have "the future is limitless."
From the beginning, Lin Jialong has been preparing for the election for mayor of Taipei, and has shown this desire more than once in public. However, unexpectedly, Tsai Ing-wen gave the nomination to her confidant Chen Shizhong, which disappointed Lin Jialong. In the end, Tsai Ing-wen gave Lin Jialong the position of candidate for the mayor of New Taipei.
However, in the eyes of many media on the island, for Lin Jialong, New Taipei City is simply a difficult game to win. First of all, the Kuomintang's basic foundation in New Taipei City is very stable. Hou Youyi, a mayor of New Taipei and a Kuomintang member who is seeking re-election, has always been among the best in his political performance evaluation and is considered to be able to easily strive for re-election. More importantly, Hou Youyi is very popular on the island, surpassing Lai Qingte and is known as the "No. 1 Popular King on the Island". Therefore, those who are interested in running for mayor in the Democratic Progressive Party are not willing to compete in New Taipei and are unwilling to become cannon fodder. According to media on the island, Lin Jialong was forced to agree to run for the election after Tsai Ing-wen’s three requests. So from this point of view, the DPP is a must-lose game in New Taipei City.
Secondly, Lin Jialong has no foundation in New Taipei City, and there are frequent surprises when building campaigns. I don’t know if it was because he was obsessed with Taipei City or because of the “spoken choice”, Lin Jialong frequently mistook New Taipei as Taipei, which shows that he didn’t care much about the New Taipei City election at all.
Previously, the island media analyzed that given that the New Taipei City election is not very popular, it doesn’t matter if Lin Jialong loses the election. After the election, he is very likely to be arranged by Tsai Ing-wen to enter the administrative department. Judging from Lin Jialong's recent performance, this possibility cannot be ruled out.Against the backdrop of the unwillingness of other members of the DPP to run for New Taipei as cannon fodder, Lin Jialong finally came out to run at Tsai Ing-wen's request. Is there any promise behind this that Tsai Ing-wen has some kind of promise to him?
Regarding Lin Jialong's recent "call" selection, members of Lin Jialong's campaign team revealed to the island media that Lin Jialong himself was also very helpless. He had a lot of itineraries, but because Hou Youyi's advantages were obvious, many local business people and local gentry dared not publicly support Lin Jialong and offended Hou Youyi, so they all hope that Lin Jialong would meet in private.
Anyway, judging from the current situation, the DPP is likely to have lost New Taipei City.