TV personality Jaw decides not to run for KMT chairmanship
04/28/2021 10:50 PM
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Taipei, April 28 (CNA) Media personality Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康) on Wednesday said he will not compete for the leadership of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), but he disclosed that the party's 2020 presidential candidate Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) is considering the chairmanship run.
Jaw, 70, had announced in February his intention to enter the election for KMT chairman, after he appealed to rejoin the party he had left in 1993.
Under the existing KMT regulations, however, he would have been ineligible to compete for the chairmanship because he had only rejoined the party for less than a year, but there had been calls in some quarters for the party to revise the rules to allow him to run.