Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Vice President William Lai’s (賴清德) campaign yesterday staged a series of political rallies in Nantou, Changhua, Taichung, and Miaoli and Hsinchu counties on the third day of Lai’s latest nationwide stump events.
As Lai visited each event, local supporters joined and arranged themselves in formation to spell out campaign slogans including one that read, “Vote for the right person to walk on the right path.”
The rallies are a display of both the DPP and Taiwanese resolve to safeguard the nation and its democratic way of life in the impending election, Lai said, adding that the formations at the rally needed participation by all just as the election would.
Photo: Huang Mei-chu, Taipei Times
“Even one fewer vote could harm the sovereignty of Taiwan,” he said, adding that the nation must stay its course to turn toward the world and away from being shackled by China.
Aiming at his opponents, Lai accused Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate New Taipei Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜), saying that his family has been renting 3 ping (10m2) apartment units to college students at the exorbitant rate of NT$16,000 a month.
He also slammed Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) presidential candidate Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), saying that the Ko family’s construction of a commercial parking lot garage at a designated agriculture-only property is a clear breach of law.
Hou and Ko are invited to hand these holdings to a trust to be administered for the public good and show proof to voters, as he himself has promised to do for his familial lands, he said.
Lai on Wednesday during a televised policy presentation for presidential candidates pledged to turn his New Taipei City family home into a miners’ museum amid criticism that the complex located in Wanli District was illegally expanded.
Lai pledged he would transfer the rights of the Wanli property to a “charitable trust.”
According to Article 69 of the Trust Law (信託法), the term “charitable trust” refers to a trust established for the purposes of promoting charity, culture, academic studies, craft, religion, religious sacrifice offering or other public interests.
Additional reporting by Liu Pin
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