DPP Officially Nominates Cheng Yun-peng to Run for Taoyuan Mayor 民進黨中執會 正式徵召鄭運鵬參選桃園

DPP's Central Executive Committee officially nominated DPP legislator Cheng Yun-peng to run for Taoyuan mayor today. Cheng began his campaign itineraries this week. Meanwhile, Taiwan People Party candidate Lai Hsiang-ling once again advocated for development of diverse ethnic dialects to ensure the rights and succession of traditions of each ethnicity group.

This is the 5th day for Cheng Yun-peng as a DPP candidate for the Taoyuan mayor race. He arrived at the Taoyuan Federation of Occupation Labor on Aug. 17, where he talked about the fast economic growth of Taoyuan these past years, and its population growth being No. 1 in Taiwan, and proffered his labor policies, to be based on the incumbent mayor Cheng Wen-tsan's foundations but more refined.

Cheng Yun-peng, DPP Taoyuan Mayoral Candidate: “With Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan's fine foundations in the last 8 years, we can expand our services thereon. I believe as such both workers and unions would develop more trust.”

Taiwan People's Party Taoyuan mayoral candidate Lai Hsiang-ling purposely chose July 20 of the lunar calendar, namely, the Hakka Yimin Festival, to promote ethnic group policies. She noted that in the past, she's spared no effort in advocating for the Development of the Hakka Language Act and that every year, about 1 percent of Hakka speakers is lost. At this rate, in 40 years, the Hakka language will disappear. This crisis cannot solely depend on laws as the local government shares the responsibility to act on it first.

Lai Hsiang-ling, TPP Taoyuan Mayoral Candidate: “Among mother tongues dissipating, Hakka is the most serious. So I will first start opening vacancies and promotions for Hakka language teachers at Taoyuan City Education Bureau.”

Lai Hsiang-ling also mentioned that, as the No. 1 Hakka population city in Taiwan, as well as the incubator city of multiple cultures, including the military dependents' village, indigenous peoples, and new immigrants, Taoyuan ought to rebuild the cultural glory shared by diverse ethnic groups. The major impact Lin Chi-chien's thesis plagiarism appeared to have on DPP's Taoyuan mayor race seems to be somewhat controlled. On the 17th, DPP Central Executive Committee officially nominated legislator Cheng Yun-peng to take over and run for Taoyuan mayor.

加入桃園市長選戰第五天，民進黨參選人鄭運鵬今日選舉行程來到桃園市職業總工會，談到桃園這幾年經濟成長非常快，人口成長也是台灣第一，並提出他的勞工政策，將建立在鄭文燦市長打好的基礎之上，提出更細膩的政策。

鄭運鵬表示：「鄭文燦市長8年都已經有這麼好的基礎，讓我們在這個基礎之上擴大服務，我相信這樣勞工朋友跟工會朋友才會有信任感。」

民眾黨桃園市長參選人賴香伶則特別選在農曆7月20日，對客家人意義重大的義民節，再推族群政策，她表示過去推動客家語言發展法不遺餘力，也談到每年有1%客語流失，40年後台灣的客家話就會消失，這危機不能只靠立法，地方政府有責任先做。

賴香伶說：「母語流失裡面，特別是客語流失是非常嚴重的，所以我會在桃園市教育局，優先來開缺專任客語師資的晉用。」

賴香伶也說到，桃園作為全台客家族群人口數第一的縣市，也是眷村、原住民以及新住民文化蘊存的多文化城市，應打造閩客與多元族群的文化光榮感。而林智堅的論文抄襲事件，對民進黨桃園市長選情造成重大衝擊，改徵召立委鄭運鵬參選後，傳出止血有成，中執會也預計下午正式徵召立委鄭運鵬接棒參選桃園市長。