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.
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Jaw not running for KMT top job
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
Broadcasting Corp of China chairman Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康) yesterday said he would not be running for chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).
He had initially expressed an interest in seeking the position with the intention of “saving the party and the country,” said Jaw, who rejoined the KMT in February.
However, there was no need for the KMT Central Standing Committee to revise a requirement in the party’s election regulations stipulating that a chairperson candidate must have been a party member for at least one year, he said.
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