The ruling Kuomintang (KMT) has finalized its plan for presidential primary polling. The party’s only candidate in the primary—Legislature Vice President Hung Hsiu-chu—will have to pass two opinion polls to become the party’s official candidate for the 2016 presidential election.
In the past, the KMT uses opinion polls gauging support for the KMT candidate when pitted against the opposition party’s candidate and when pitted against each other. However, KMT Secretary-General Lee Shu-chuan said on Friday that there is only one candidate in the primary this time round, so the party will replace the latter with a poll that measures support for Hung as the sole KMT candidate. Each poll will make up 50% of the assessment. Hung will have to get a minimum of 30% overall support rating in order to officially qualify as the KMT’s presidential candidate.