Chiang Wan-an Campaigns for Wang Hung-wei 蔣萬安合體王鴻薇 要競選團隊全力輔選

Taipei City Mayor-elect Chiang Wan-an helped to campaign for KMT legislative by-election candidate Wang Hung-wei on Dec. 21.

Taipei City Mayor-elect Chiang Wan-an joined KMT legislative by-election candidate Wang Hung-wei for a morning of campaigning on Dec. 21. Chiang said he has asked his campaign team to keep working all the way through the by-election on Jan. 8 so that Wang will be fully supported.

Chiang Wan-an, Mayor-elect, Taipei City: “Actually, many members of the team took the initiative to come to me and offer their assistance. After all, the objective is the same, and we have to get Councilor Hung-wei into the legislature.”

Wang and her DPP opponent Enoch Wu have crossed swords on a variety of policy issues, the latest being firefighting budgets. Wu advocated having the central government take charge of arranging budgets and resolving the issues of insufficient manpower and outdated equipment. Wang responded that the issue is the central government's refusal to act on this issue.

Wang Hung-wei, Legislative By-election Candidate (KMT): “The proposal to increase bonuses for police officers and firefighters by 1.5 times has already been approved by the Taipei City Government, and the funding source has already been found. That's why I believe the main issue right now is for the Ministry of the Interior to stop dragging its feet to the point where the minister resigned. Taipei's police officers and firefighters still haven't received the bonuses they deserve.”

Enoch Wu, Legislative By-election Candidate (DPP): “Any drivel is meaningless. We see this structural problem, and we propose a specific solution to let the central government take charge and let the central government provide assistance to raise the number of firefighters and upgrade equipment.”

Wu explained that his proposals are aimed at resolving the issues of insufficient firefighters and outdated equipment, and have nothing to do with the bonuses raised by Wang. He said there is no conflict and it all needs to be done and all is important.

北市立委補選白熱化，台北市長當選人蔣萬安一早合體國民黨王鴻薇拜會地方，拉抬選情，更下達軍令狀，要求市長選戰的競選團隊要到1月8日立委補選完才能休假，全力輔選王鴻薇。

台北市長當選人蔣萬安指出：「其實團隊很多夥伴，大家就主動跟我反映，希望能夠全力來協助。同樣的，我們都有共同的目標，一定要讓鴻薇議員進入立法院。」

選戰政策持續攻防，針對吳怡農再拋消防政見，主張由中央編列預算，解決人力不足、裝備老舊問題，王鴻薇批評，問題是卡在中央不核備。

國民黨北市立委補選候選人王鴻薇說道：「警消加給從現在的1倍提高到1.5倍，這個部分事實上，台北市政府已經完全同意，而且已經找好財源。所以我覺得現在最主要的問題是讓內政部不要再卡關，卡到內政部長都下台了，到現在還沒有給我們台北市警消，他們應該有的一個加給。」

民進黨北市立委補選候選人吳怡農表示：「任何的口水沒有太大的意義，那我們看到這個結構性的問題，我們提出一個具體的解決方案，讓中央來主導，讓中央來協助，提升我們消防人員的人數以及我們的裝備的狀況。」

吳怡農也進一步說明，自己提出的政見是對消防人力的補充以及老舊裝備汰換，跟王鴻薇提到的勤務加給、危險加給，是完全不一樣的事情，兩者沒有衝突，都要做，也都重要。