Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) yesterday accepted the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) nomination to run for Taoyuan mayor in the Nov. 26 local elections, saying he is ready to renew the party’s administration of the city.
His announcement came a day after the DPP’s Central Executive Committee approved a proposal from the election strategy committee to nominate Lin without holding a primary.
Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) of the DPP cannot seek re-election, as he has reached the two-term limit.
Lin told a news conference that the “fair city of Taoyuan cannot go backward” and that he is ready to pick up Chen’s
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration’s performance in terms of COVID-19 prevention policies would be the make-or-break issue regarding the party’s success in the local elections in November, DPP caucus secretary-general Cheng Yun-peng (鄭運鵬) said on Tuesday.
If party members did well in preventing the COVID-19 pandemic, they would have a better chance of winning a successive term, Cheng added.
The public largely blamed Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center, for unpopular policies such as rapid screening test purchase restrictions, and rules about people who have tested positive for the virus visiting doctors