The People First Party officially announced its nominees for at-large legislative seats. Chairperson James Soong is confident with the list and hope the public will help them bring more seats of the minority party into the legislature.
Nominees stand shoulder to shoulder as the People First Party officially announce its nominees for at-large legislative seats. The list included names from the core staff members of Foxconn founder Terry Gou, such as Amanda Liu and Tsai Chin-yu, and the honorary vice chairperson of the United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) John Hsuan, who has a personal friendship with Gou. The party's chairperson, James Soong is confident of this list.
We have Chen Yi-chieh to represent the Under-40s. James Soong's team, Yu Hisang's team will do our utmost to care for the public and provide professional service.
There are 22 nominees on the list. At the top is Secretary-General of The League for Persons with Disabilities, Teng Hsi-hua. Placed second on the list is legislator Li Hong-jyun, third is UMC's Honorary Vice Chairperson John Hsuan, fourth is Amanda Liu, CEO to Terry Gou's Yonglin Foundation, while Tsai Chin-yu is listed at number nine. Many of the nominees have some kind of relation to Terry Gou.
First of all, I represent myself. Second of all, I represent the tech industry. I have been doing charity work for all these years, now there's a chance that I can do even more for the public. I hope can grasp this opportunity.
Chin-yu and I have discussed together. Actually, to be able to recruit Ms. Teng Hsi-hua as the top nominee for the People First Party also means that we all think that the bottom layer in the society, or the most disadvantaged, are the friends that we need to care for the most.
The chairperson said to me that, Hsi-hua, we want to recruit you not to service for the party. You don't have to service for the People First Party, but it's for you to input into the society and service the public.
The current People First Party's caucus leader Chen Yi-chieh is also listed as the fifth nominee on the list. At the same time, she also announced to drop out of the district legislator elections for the Datong and Shihlin district. She said that she is determined to battle alongside with James Soong at his political career "endgame." Chen also hopes to consolidate the strengths of the minority parties in order to gain another seat in the legislature.