BUS SYSTEM TARGETED? Images from a chat group allegedly show a KMT staffer saying that a bus service for people planning to vote in Taichung should be swarmedBy Su Mu-chun, Su Chin-feng and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is suppressing young voters, Lin Ching-yi (林靜儀), the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) candidate in the legislative by-election for Taichung’s second electoral district, told a news conference at Nantien Temple in the city’s Wufeng District (霧峰) yesterday, with others accusing the KMT of planning to disrupt bus services during the vote on Sunday.
Lee Yu-chen (李雨蓁), who heads the Taiwan Statebuilding Party’s Organization Department, on Tuesday wrote on Facebook that the KMT was using “dirty tricks” in its bid to benefit its candidate, former legislator Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恒).
Lee’s post included a screenshot of a chat group on
The family of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taichung by-election candidate Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恒) owns a guest house that was built illegally on national property, National Property Administration Taichung Central District (中區) Division Director Chao Tzu-hsien (趙子賢) said yesterday.
The guest house in Taichung’s Nantun District (南屯) occupies two plots of national land, Chao said, adding that he would commission a lawyer to set up the process of having the building demolished and the land returned to the government, as well as to seek an indictment.
Allegations that the guest house was illegally constructed had prompted calls for an investigation by city officials,
By William Hetherington / Staff writer, with CNAThe family of Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT） Taichung by-election candidate Yen Kuan-heng （顏寬恒） owns a guest house that was built illegally on national property, National Property Administration Taichung Central District （中區） Division Director Chao Tzu-hsien （趙子賢） said yesterday.
Taichung legislative candidate Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恒) on Monday condemned a judicial probe into allegations that he might have breached election rules by providing lavish meals during his election campaign.
Yen, the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) candidate in Taichung’s second electoral district by-election, said that public prosecutors had questioned several borough wardens and other local residents over the meals.
“This is the judiciary trying to instill fear in people who support me in the by-election,” he said.
Taichung prosecutors over the weekend investigated Yen’s campaign activities, with 26 people taken in for questioning, including four borough wardens.
Yen said that organizing rallies and providing meals