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on the 15th, kmt tainan citizen xie longjie was urged by a famous talk show host to run for the next tainan mayoral election based on polls. he promised that if he ran, he would still insist on serving for only 4 years, and was immediately regarded as an imaginary enemy by the democratic progressive party. tsai hsiao-wei, a member of the democratic progressive party's tainan citizen representative lin junxian, interpreted xie's move as an announcement of his candidacy, but mocked him for first changing his bad habit of discriminating against women. xie longjie clarified on the 16th that he had not officially announced it, but was actively preparing and looking forward to making great changes with the citizens of tainan.

when xie participated in a political talk show on the 15th, in response to a poll for the mayor of tainan in lai ching-te's native district, xie longjie defeated the democratic progressive party's lin junxian and wang dingyu, and only lost slightly to chen ting-fei. the guests urged him to run for mayor of tainan. xie clarified on the 16th that he did not formally announce his candidacy, but only promised that "if i run, i will still demand to serve only 4 years."

xie said that the dpp has been in power in tainan city for more than 30 years, and every dpp mayor, including lai ching-te, did nothing constructive in their first term. they only wanted to do anything after being re-elected, and while serving as mayor, they watched the vacancies in the taiwan authorities.

in the 2022 tainan mayoral election, hsieh long-jie shouted the slogan "give me 4 years, i'll make you miss me for 40 years", and he said that this promise has not changed to this day. in that year's election, hsieh lost to the democratic progressive party's huang weizhe by only 45,000 votes, which was the smallest gap between the blue and green in the mayoral votes since the merger and upgrading of tainan county and city. hsieh's disclosure of his candidacy this time immediately aroused the political nerves of the democratic progressive party.

tsai hsiao-wei said that hsieh is definitely one of the green camp's imaginary enemies, but if he wants to win, he must first change his bad words and discriminatory ideas about women's rights. he shouted the slogan "complete 8 years of construction in 4 years", which clearly exposed that he has no long-term plan for tainan.

it is generally expected that the dpp still holds an advantage in tainan city, a deep green stronghold. no matter who is nominated in the party, as long as there is no other person to disrupt the situation, the chances of winning against hsieh are high.

the chaos in the green camp's internal party primary elections is also what lai ching-te is most worried about. he has issued a "ban on talking about 2026" several times recently, requiring those from various factions who are interested in participating in the 2026 primary elections not to make any major public moves, so as not to affect the unity within the party and allow the kuomintang to reap the benefits.

factional competition within the dpp is fierce. lin junxian, chen tingfei and wang dingyu each support the lai faction, the zhenghui party and the yongyan party. they have their own calculations for the primary election. among them, lin and chen, who expressed their stance the earliest, are the most active. recently, they have frequently canvassed for votes across districts and appeared together. the two played it down on the surface, but they were fighting each other secretly.

public opinion analysis on the island said that the recent public opinion polls of lin and chen have fluctuated, and the sudden news that hsieh will compete for the mayor of tainan will inevitably affect the internal alliance layout of the green camp faction in advance.

lin jingxian, taiwan correspondent of strait herald