Former Premier Yu Shyi-kun has emerged as the opposition camp’s candidate for New Taipei City mayor.
Yu is a political heavyweight from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). In a poll on Friday which pit him against Lin Jih-jia from the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU), Yu won 38.7% of the vote against Lin’s 18.7%.
Yu was premier from 2002 to 2005 when then president Chen Shui-bin was in power. Yu said he hopes to receive full support from the TSU, which is significantly smaller than Yu’s own party.
Yu will face off against the incumbent mayor of New Taipei City, the KMT’s Eric Chu, in the year-end elections.