At about 1:00 p.m. yesterday (25), the Kuomintang officially recruited party legislator Jiang Wanan to participate in the Taipei mayoral election at the end of this year, and recruited legislator Xu Shuhua to run for the mayor of Nantou County and former legislator Xie Guoliang to run for mayor of Keelung City. People held up their hands together and shouted “Frozen garlic!” Many netizens had a lot of opinions on this, believing that Zhu’s sudden announcement of the nomination at the regular meeting was taken by surprise and lacked momentum, and it was not as “ceremonial” as the DPP. But in fact, the Kuomintang also announced its nominees at the regular meeting before.
Yesterday afternoon, at the KMT Central Committee’s regular meeting, Secretary-General Huang Jianting suddenly stood up and said, “In accordance with the report of the regular meeting, the Party Central Election Strategy Report proposed and approved by the Central Election Nomination Committee to nominate Comrade Chiang Wan-an for the mayor of Taipei City and Comrade Xie Guoliang for the election of Keelung. The mayor of the city, nominated Comrade Xu Shuhua to run for the election of the county magistrate of Nantou County, and submitted the petition to the regular meeting for deliberation.”
After Huang Jianting finished his speech, Zhu Lilun immediately asked to nominate three outstanding comrades, Jiang Wanan, Xie Guoliang, and Xu Shuhua, for the election. Do you have any opinions? With a round of applause from the scene, the recruitment of these three people passed smoothly. Zhu invited Jiang, Xie, Xu, and Huang to take a group photo in front of the stage, Zhu Zhu expressed encouragement to the candidates, and the last five held hands and shouted “Frozen garlic!” many times to show the great unity of the blue camp.
This picture has caused heated discussions on the Internet. Netizens poured into “Zhongshi News Network” and related Facebook links to leave messages: “Why is it so sudden? There was no news beforehand, and there was no arrangement on the scene, so there was no momentum”, “I’m used to raids. Is it? This way of announcement feels quite hasty”, “Look at the picture of the DPP taking the oath to go to war, and then look at this, the sense of ceremony is very bad”, “The announcement was made suddenly after the meeting, which caught people off guard”, “Shouting cold.” This scene is so old-fashioned and I don’t remember much, the Kuomintang is losing even by pretending”, “I support these three very much, and feel that they can be welcomed in a more ceremonious way.”