James Soong to run for Taiwan's leader
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Xinhua, November 1, 2011
People First Party (PFP) chairman James Soong has collected 355,589 signatures from voters to support his bid to run in the upcoming Taiwan leader election, the party announced at a press conference on Tuesday.
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People First Party Chairman James Soong gives a thumbs-up as he announces his candidacy for Taiwan's leader in Taipei yesterday. Soong collected 355,589 signatures from voters, more than the required 250,000, to support his bid to run in the January election. |
Soong registered to run for Taiwan's leader with Lin Ruey-shiung as his running mate through public endorsement on Sept. 20. Soong had to collect signatures from at least 257,695 eligible voters (1.5 percent of the total electorate) before Nov. 5 to be eligible to run in Taiwan's leader election.
The PFP Tuesday sent the 355,589 signatures to the Taipei city election commission and said that more collected signatures would be sent to the election commission before Nov. 5, the deadline for the public endorsement.
Taiwan's leader election will be held on Jan. 14, 2012. Ma Ying-jeou and his running mate Wu Den-yih are the candidates from the ruling Kuomintang Party, while Tsai Ing-wen and her running mate Su Jia-chyuan are the candidates from Taiwan's major opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).
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