By Eryk Michael Smith /Staff Yahoo News image shows DPP lawmakers at Taipei press conference. TAIPEI — Ruling party heavyweights from southern…

By RK Shih/Staff Photo shows Lai speaking to the media in September 2025. Via Yahoo News. TAIPEI — When the new Legislative…

Chiu said that if elected mayor, she would construct a levee-top expressway running parallel to the Gaoping River (高屏溪堤岸), forming the backbone of a proposed “30-minute Greater Kaohsiung Living Circle.” The corridor would link Kaohsiung (高雄), Pingtung (屏東), and Tainan (台南) into a unified “Southern Taiwan Metropolitan Region.”

A speaker at a DPP mayoral candidate’s rally told supporters to adjust their answers in political polls. Critics say that’s cheating. The candidate says it was just an explanation of how polls work.

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Speaking before about a hundred supporters in Kaohsiung, Cheng said a top priority if elected would be to “end the long rule of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Tainan and Kaohsiung.”

Once buoyed by strong early polling and factional backing, legislator Lin Dai-hua’s (林岱樺), decline has reportedly left the DPP’s Kaohsiung network — known as the Chu faction (菊系), linked to former Mayor Chen Chu (陳菊) — divided and unmotivated to unite behind a single candidate.

The KMT says the events aim to build unity ahead of the 2026 local elections  and the 2028 presidential race , with the goal of returning…

Despite calls for unity, none of the four DPP candidates appear ready to drop out and endorse a rival  DPP lawmaker Lin Tai-hua (林岱樺)…

Saying both sides are to blame here is like insisting that Poland provoked pre-1941 buddies Hitler and Stalin by existing. AI Generated…