Awkwardness as lesser-known Taipei mayoral candidates face press
Awkwardness as lesser-known Taipei mayoral candidates face press
2026-10-27
The local elections are just around the corner, but do you know all the candidates up for election? In Taipei, the KMT’s Chiang Wan-an and the DPP’s Puma Shen get all the press. But there are another four candidates running for mayor. They each paid the deposit of NT$1.2 million to participate, but they only will be getting it back of they manage to get at least 10% of the vote. As reference, 2.02 million people voted in the previous election, which means the threshold then was 202,000 votes.
The four candidates attended the ballot number lottery on Tuesday. One of them is Tang Hsin-min, who showed up with a big self-made laminated poster covered in word art. His constantly chanted he was doing it “At the orders of Chiang Ching-kuo,” the former leader of Taiwan. The situation devolved into chaos after he took too long at the stand and even told staff to “shut up” when they tried to coax him away. Witnessing the awkward scene was fellow candidate Kuo Hsi, a retired Navy Captain. He took his moment to slam TVBS and SETN, the TV outlets that will be hosting mayoral debate. He said that it was “preferential treatment” and “discriminatory” that only two of the candidates were to take part. The other two candidates are former body builder Lin Chih-cheng and Hsiao Wen-chien, who worked as an interpreter for former President Chen Shui-bian.
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北市長選戰"不只洋流vs.安可" 唐新民.郭璽等4人也拚戰
2026-10-27
2026決戰首都，台北市長這局除了頻頻交戰的蔣萬安與沈伯洋，其實還有另外4個候選人，但多數民眾不知道有這些人參選，而且都感到陌生。參選直轄市長要拿回120萬保證金，得票數要超過選民的10%，上回選戰有202萬人，門檻20萬票出頭，候選人拚過關，爭取認同前，得先打開知名度。
週二號次抽籤時，台北市長候選人唐新民直接拿出準備好的大字報，喊著"奉蔣經國遺命"，但過程有點失控。他發言有點久，選委會工作人員催促唐新民還被反嗆"閉嘴"。場面尷尬。另一位候選人郭璽，海軍上校退役，他向TVBS、三立抗議，辯論只找2個候選人，說這是差別對待跟歧視。其他還有前健美國手林志成、曾任陳水扁口譯的蕭文乾。
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