The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) yesterday said it plans to set up a live Internet video channel that would broadcast 24 hours a day, to increase TPP Chairman and presidential candidate Ko Wen-je’s (柯文哲) Internet and media exposure.
Ko’s campaign chief of staff Vivian Huang (黃珊珊) on Friday said that the TPP would hold six major election campaign events in Taoyuan, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Taichung and Taipei, as well as 10 open discussion sessions across the country that would be attended by Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌), a former New Power Party legislator who tops the TPP’s list of legislator-at-large nominees.
Huang added that the TPP is planning to set up a live video channel on the Internet.
Photo: George Tsorng, Taipei Times
TPP spokesman Adam Lee (李頂立) said mainstream media outlets are becoming “less friendly” toward the TPP due to advertisements from the Democratic Progressive Party and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), which have bigger budgets.
“[The TPP] might even have difficulties placing ads,” so it needs to publicize itself, he said.
“Our supporters are mainly people between the ages of 20 and 50,” and Ko is relatively popular among young people, so the TPP would set up a live video channel on which to broadcast Ko’s campaign schedule and content, Lee said.
The TPP would combine its “aerial battle” (Internet-based campaigning) approach with a “ground battle” approach (traditional campaigning, such as political canvassing and major campaign events) for the upcoming election, he said.
The livestream of the TTP’s open discussion session in front of the Legislative Yuan on Friday evening was viewed by almost 60,000 people, he said.
In addition to the 16 major election campaign events and open discussion sessions mentioned by Huang, the TPP would give small-scale speeches that would be broadcast live on the Internet, Lee said.
Meanwhile, Chen You-chen (陳宥丞), campaign spokesman for TPP vice presidential candidate Cynthia Wu (吳欣盈), said that Wu would be heading to the UN’s COP28 climate summit in Dubai next week.
The TPP would show video clips of her at the conference to ensure that the public has an understanding of how experienced she is in international relations, Chen said.
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