Former President 
Tsai Ing-wen campaigned in Chiayi County on September 19 for Tsai Yi-yu, the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate for county magistrate, at joint campaign headquarters launches in Taibao and Lucao. The Taibao launch, shared with mayoral candidate Lu Hui-yu and county council candidate Tai Kuang-tsung, was the first large rally of the magistrate race, the Liberty Times reported. Chiayi County Magistrate Weng Chang-liang and DPP legislators Chen Kuan-ting and Lin Shu-fen spoke in support at both stops.
What did she say about the candidate? She called Tsai Yi-yu "a nimble fat guy" who can sort out any problem in the county, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported. Tracing his path from "youth legislator" to three terms, she said: "Wherever there's trouble in Chiayi, he runs there; when things get stuck, he finds a way to sort it out." In Lucao, in remarks carried by the Liberty Times, she credited those terms with securing flood-control, road, industrial-park transport and tap-water projects for Chiayi, and said he had proposed a "golden decade" plan for the science park, the drone industry, transport and farming upgrades and was the best fit to succeed Weng.
What changes did she point to? When she came to Taibao three years ago, the Chiayi Science Park had just broken ground, and TSMC has since entered mass production there, she said. Citing more drone firms moving in, the high-speed rail, the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum and large shopping centres, she called the change in Taibao plain to see, CNA reported. Politics, she said, is not shouting big slogans every day but "one road, one water pipe, one park, one job," built up item by item into real local change.
What is the candidate promising? Tsai Yi-yu said the county seat district, the museum's southern branch, the science park and TSMC have all landed in Taibao, making it the core of Chiayi's industrial transformation. If he succeeds Weng, he said, he would seize Chiayi's "golden decade" to keep drawing TSMC supply-chain investment and turn it into more jobs, CNA reported.
Who else was on the ticket? In Lucao the former president also backed township chief candidate Wu Yu-chin, whom she called an important driver of the long-term care system during eight years as a legislator, urging "one vote for Tsai Yi-yu, one vote for Wu Yu-chin." New Taipei mayoral candidate Su Chiao-hui and Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen, the Liberty Times reported, endorsed the pair by video.
Figures referenced: Tsai Ing-wen. — JudgeMarket.
