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KMT municipal chiefs
rank poorly
¡¥COMMONWEALTH SURVEY¡¦: Hualien County¡¦s Fu
Kun-chi, who ran as an independent, topped the poll, while Taipei City¡¦s Hau
Lung-bin was among the bottom five
By Mo Yan-chih / Staff Reporter
Television reporters approach
Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin at his office yesterday to ask his opinion about a
survey published by a magazine in which he had the third-lowest approval rating
among 22 mayors and county commissioners.
Photo: Chen Ching-min, Taipei Times
A survey on the approval ratings of 22
municipality heads showed Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) officials lagging
behind their Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) counterparts.
The survey by the Chinese-language CommonWealth magazine, which was released
yesterday, showed that municipalities run by KMT members ranked at the bottom of
the survey. All of the six DPP local government heads ranked among the top 10.
KMT administrators who control the major traditional pan-blue strongholds ¡X
Taoyuan County Commissioner John Wu (§d§Ó´), the son of former KMT chairman Wu
Poh-hsiung (§d§B¶¯), Greater Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (J§Ó±j), Taipei Mayor Hau
Lung-bin (°qÀsÙy) and Keelung Mayor Chang Tong-rong (±i³qºa) ¡X ranked in the bottom
five, with approval ratings of below 60 percent.
Topping the survey were Hualien County Commissioner Fu Kun-chi (³Å±XÛm), a former
KMT member who ran as an independent in the last election in 2009, with an
approval rating of 76.3 percent, followed by Pingtung County Commissioner Tsao
Chi-hung (±ä±ÒÂE) of the DPP with 74.3 percent and Greater Tainan Mayor William Lai
(¿à²M¼w) of the DPP with 74.1 percent.
Chiayi County Commissioner Helen Chang (±iªá«a) of the DPP and Changhua County
Commissioner Cho Po-yuan (¨ô§B·½) of the KMT rounded up the top five.
Greater Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (³¯µâ) fell to 10th place from among the top
three last year.
The magazine said the survey showed that the public¡¦s focus was shifting to
local administrators¡¦ performance, rather than an individual¡¦s popularity.
KMT spokesperson Lai Su-ju (¿à¯À¦p) said all local KMT officials worked hard to
make their municipalities better, adding that the party would ask these local
administrators to strengthen their performance.
Hau said he humbly accepted the results and would examine the performance of his
team and his government would step up efforts to improve its performance.
However, he said Taipei received top scores in another survey measuring the
level of happiness among city and county residents, he said.
The DPP said it was happy to see all six of its mayors and commissioners finish
in the top 10.
DPP spokesperson Kang Yu-cheng (±d¸Î¦¨) said the KMT¡¦s poor local governance would
undermine its quest to retain power in the presidential election in January.
The poll showed that the KMT was not ready as it had claimed before the 2008
presidential election, while the DPP is ready to return to power, said Lin Chun-hsien
(ªL«T¾Ë), another DPP spokesman.
Additional reporting by Chris Wang
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