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進入《TAIPEI TIMES 焦點》 DPP demand Lien camp prove accusations on Ko
Democratic Progressive Party （DPP） Deputy Secretary-General Chiu Tai-san holds up a document at a press conference in Taipei yesterday as he responds to accusations from Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT） Taipei mayoral candidate Sean Lien’s campaign director, KMT Legislator Alex Tsai. Photo: Lo Pei-der, Taipei Times
By Lu Heng-chien, Wang Wen-hsuan and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Democratic Progressive Party （DPP） officials yesterday called on Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT） Legislator Alex Tsai （蔡正元）, Taipei mayoral candidate Sean Lien’s （連勝文） campaign director, to present the actual document he posted a picture of on Facebook as proof of independent mayoral candidate Ko Wen-je’s （柯文哲） affiliation with the DPP.
Tsai posted a picture of a document which he said was sent to Ko by the DPP asking the Ko office to nominate supervisors to stand duty at the voting boxes for the election.
Tsai said that the document showed that the DPP referred to Tsai as: “Our party’s Taipei City mayoral candidate” and “the party’s nominated candidate,” in an apparent bid to cast into doubt Ko’s non-partisanship.
Tsai said during an interview yesterday that he had obtained the document from DPP headquarters in Taipei and said that the DPP could take him to court if the document was faked.
According to reports by online Chinese-language Web site ETtoday, DPP Deputy Secretary-General Chiu Tai-san （邱太三） called on Tsai to provide the actual document as proof, adding that Tsai should not seek to smear other candidates at such a critical time.
Chiu also provided copies of documents sent to Ko’s office by the party in the past and stressed the that the party’s usual phrasing differed from the information that Tsai provided, implying that the document was faked, the report said.
The sources of Tsai’s allegations have long been doubted and he should provide actual documentation and cite his sources, Chiu said in the report.
Despite Tsai’s post, no evidence of the additional words have been found in the party’s archived documents, DPP Legislator Tuan Yi-kang （段宜康） said in the report.
“So that’s what Tsai was up to when he neglected to eat lunch,” Tuan said, insinuating that Tsai had falsified the document.
In related news, when asked by reporters what he thought about Tsai’s comments during a visit to Zhuzihu on Yangmingshan （陽明山）, Ko said that he would “thank Tsai later after the election,” the report said.
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES
