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niversity student Huang media outlets which are mostly their surveys,” he says.
Bo-lin is a supporter of manipulated by the Democratic
UTaiwan People’s Party pres- Progressive Party (DPP) and Kuo- A supporter who identified her-
idential candidate Ko Wen-je. mintang (KMT),” Huang adds. self as Baibai thinks fights between
DPP and KMT are detrimental to
“I support him because of all The DPP and KMT are the two Taiwan.
the work he has done as the mayor biggest parties in Taiwan with
of Taipei city. He has made every- much longer history, representing “Taiwanese are conditioned to
thing (government issues) trans- the green camp and the blue camp think that they can only choose
parent and public [to the people]” respectively, while white is the col- DPP or KMT. That is limiting their
Huang says in a photo-taking event our for TPP founded in 2019. thoughts about what choices they
featuring Ko. actually have,” Baibai says.
Chen, who declined to not re-
Huang is also impressed by Ko’s veal his full name, aged 40, shares Ko earned 3.6 million or 26%
promotion tactic. Huang’s view. of the votes, falling short of Kuo-
“Polls conducted by traditional mintang’s Hou Yu-ih at 33% and

“The support Ko has gained by media outlets which are controlled the ruling Democratic Progressive
social media has allowed him to by blue and green camps always Party’s president-elect William Lai
avoid competing over traditional found Ko as the least popular in Ching-te at 40%.

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