The 2020 presidential and general elections are scheduled to take place in less than half a year. Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je has not yet disclosed whether he intends to run. However, Sources say that People First Party intends to invite Ko to run with their chairperson James Soong.


Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je has not yet revealed whether he will run for the 2020 presidential elections, however, there's already talk that the People First Party hopes to invite him to join forces. Ko, who doesn't belong to any party, could then avoid the need to pass a petition to run. Secondly, it would help to rally votes for legislators in the People First Party. Ko however, denies the rumor.

They have never approached me to talk about this (but then would you agree?) You are asking me out of the blue, I need to think about it first, we'll see. You guys shouldn't force me to think about things I don't really want to think about.

Croissant ("Ko-Soong" pair) I know tastes good, but I don't know if it would be a Ko - Soong ticket, and whether the two have the same ideologies to protect Taiwan's freedom and democracy.

Ko stressed that the last time he saw People First Party's Chairman James Soong was three months ago. At that time neither of them mentioned the presidential elections. Meanwhile, the Party said that they have not proactively reached out to the Ko camp. When asked about the possibility of them joining forces, the head of the party's organizational department, Chang Sho-wen leaves room for collaboration by saying that Ko is a great candidate to lift the popularity of other candidates in the Party. Meanwhile Wu E-yang, who had previously contended for the seat of Taipei Mayor, announced that he will form a " White Justice Alliance" to run for legislator. He also said that he will push for the "anti-escape clause" which requires candidates to resign any duty that they have should they want to run. This is evidently targeting the incumbent Taipei and Kaohsiung mayor Ko Wen-je and Han Kuo-yu.

This is said often, but if the sky falls, I won't be the tallest (so I won't get hit should it happens).

As for former Hon Hai Chairperson Terry Gou's proposal of the government paying fully to raise children from zero to six years old, Ko said it was unlikely. He however stresses that it has been the goal of Taipei to reduce parenting burdens and that related policies will be announced next week.



台北市長柯文哲至今仍未鬆口是否參選2020，卻傳出親民黨有意爭取柯文哲合作，角逐總統大位，一來可解決柯文哲參選的連署問題，二來有助拉抬親民黨立委選情，不過柯文哲否認傳言。

台北市長 柯文哲表示：「從來沒有跟我接觸談過這個。（那你願意嗎？)
突然問人家人家還要想一下，再想想看吧！這實在是你們不要每天逼我想，我不是很想想的東西。」

親民黨組織部主任 張碩文表示：「可頌我知道很好吃啦！可是我不知道是不是會柯宋配，兩個人的理想是不是都可以一致，為台灣的自由民主去守護。」

柯文哲強調最後一次遇到宋楚瑜，大概是三個月前，當時兩人從沒提到2020大選。親民黨團則坦言，並未主動接洽柯陣營，但被問到橘白合作的可能性，親民黨組織部主任張碩文，話沒有說死，仍說有機會，畢竟柯文哲目前是一隻好的母雞人選。至於曾參選台北市長的吳蕚洋，將宣布組織白色聯盟，投入立委選舉，還要推動「反落跑條款」，要求政治人物不得帶職參選，炮口就對準柯文哲，和高雄市長韓國瑜。

台北市長 柯文哲表示：「這常常說喔！天塌下來我都不是最高的。」

至於前鴻海董事長郭台銘，近來拋出0到6歲國家養政見，柯文哲直言完全國家養，不太可能，但強調降低年輕父母的負擔，是台北市政府這幾年努力的方向，預計下週將公布相關政策。