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Taipei Deputy Mayor Lee Shu-chuan announced Wednesday afternoon on social media that he is resigning at the end of February to enter the New Taipei mayoral race. Prominent members of his party, the KMT had since come out in his support, including New Taipei Deputy Mayor Liu Ho-jan, who had expressed earlier his intention to run, and New Taipei Mayor Hou Yu-ih. However, the DPP remembers that Lee said in 2023, that he would’ve run for New Taipei mayor already if he wanted to. Only he would know what took him so long.

The morning after Taipei Deputy Mayor Lee Shu-chuan announced his resignation and intention to run for New Taipei mayor, he gave a radio interview and thanked current New Taipei Mayor Hou Yu-ih and Deputy Mayor Liu Ho-jan for their support.

Lee Shu-chuan
Taipei Deputy Mayor
Ho-jan was my head of education department when I was deputy commissioner of then-Taipei County. He’d always wanted to do more for New Taipei, and I’ve always encouraged him. Now I must thank him for being willing to help me.

Hou Yu-ih
New Taipei Mayor
We will fully support Lee Shu-chuan. We also thank Deputy Mayor Liu Ho-jan for his courage to shoulder this responsibility over this period of time.

Liu had earlier expressed his intention to run, but decided to yield to Lee after his announcement on Wednesday. Now that Lee appears to be the KMT’s preferred candidate, the first challenge will be how he should deal with a potential KMT-TPP cooperation, proposed earlier by the chairs of the two parties.

Lee Shu-chuan
Taipei Deputy Mayor
It will be a gentlemen’s game with him. Earlier, Chairman Huang Kuo-chang wanted to meet, but I declined at the time because, one, I had not decided to run, and two, I have yet to receive the KMT’s nomination.

Huang Kuo-chang
New Taipei mayoral candidate (TPP)
In the future, should Uncle Chuan be the one to run for the KMT, I will not be deputy mayor.

Prominent KMT members have since expressed support for Lee. But some may remember Lee’s remarks from 2023 suggesting that he won’t ever enter the New Taipei mayoral race.

- In the future, you could run for New Taipei mayor. Do you have any such plans?
- Good friends don’t push each other toward elections. I’ve reached retirement age. I would’ve run already if I wanted to. I’m dedicating my life to Taipei.
- So you’ll stay put in Taipei in the next three-and-a-half years?
- For that, you’ll have to ask the mayor.

Hung Chien-yi
Taipei City councilor (DPP)
Now that Chiang Wan-an has lost an arm and a leg, I really want to know how Chiang Wan-an, who’s been called a mama’s boy, is supposed to deal with all the city governance and administrative affairs going forward.

- In the past you said that you’d be running already if you wanted to. What made you consider running this time?

Only he would know why he decided to run despite having said otherwise in the past. For now, Lee only says he’ll respond to the public once his campaign officially starts in March.

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