Withdrawal of candidate may change face of KMT Taipei mayoral primary (2014/04/17)

A KMT legislator has thrown a wrench into the party’s primary for Taipei mayor, announcing his withdrawal just days before KMT members go to the polls. The candidate who pulled out threw his support to frontrunner Sean Lien, angering Lien’s main rival Ting Shou-chung. 

When Legislator Tsai Cheng-yuan announced he was withdrawing from the race, and asked his supporters to back Sean Lien, the other main contender Ting Shou-chung cried foul play.

Ting Shou-chung
Taipei Mayoral Candidate
This is clearly game-fixing. If this happened in a sporting arena, where the players of two teams did something like this, they’d be thrown out. We feel this is intended to fool Taipei residents. 

Ting suspects that the Lien and Tsai camps joined together to attack him, a charge Lien rejected. 

Sean Lien 
Taipei Mayoral Candidate
Legislator Ting bashed me the day before yesterday, then said yesterday we were as close as brothers and then attacked me again today. Changing his tune like that, I don’t know what he’s trying to say.

It won’t be clear until April 23 when the primary results are announced what effect Tsai’s withdrawal had on the race. Tsai said an already completed opinion poll accounting for 70 percent of the primary result had Lien and Ting in a virtual dead heat. But a party official said Tsai’s numbers were suspect because nobody knows the poll results yet.

連丁殺紅眼

國民黨北市長初選,這個禮拜六就要舉行黨員投票,投票日前夕,參選人之一的蔡正元宣佈棄選,呼籲黨員把票轉投給連勝文,也要參選的丁守中批評,蔡正元從頭到尾都在打假球,他還暗諷,連蔡結盟攻擊他,如果在運動場上,這兩名運動員都該被取消資格。

國民黨台北市長初選參選人之一的蔡正元,今天宣布棄選,呼籲黨員轉支持連勝文。

[[北市長參選人(國) 丁守中]]
這個就很明顯是打假球嘛,如果在運動場上來講,兩個運動員這樣子搞的話,早就被除名了,我們是覺得這是在愚弄我們台北市民。

丁守中質疑,這根本就是連蔡兩陣營結盟攻擊他,連勝文也反擊。


[[北市長參選人(國) 連勝文]]
丁委員在前天把我罵得狗血淋頭,昨天又說跟我情如兄弟,今天又開始罵我,這樣變來變去,我也不知道他要說什麼。

蔡正元的退選,是否會對國民黨台北市長初選造成衝擊,最晚要到4月23日初選結果出來才知道。蔡正元今天公佈一份民調,顯示連、丁呈五五波,但有黨員對這民調數字存有疑慮,因為結果根本還沒公佈。

 

本文引用自: 民視新聞網 http://englishnews.ftv.com.tw/
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