The outcome of the poll in Taichung on Saturday’s referendum questions should be a warning to the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regarding the city’s legislative by-election next month, an academic said on Saturday.
The referendum results could, to some extent, hurt the chances of Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恒), a former legislator who is the KMT candidate in the by-election for Taichung’s second electoral district on Jan. 9, Tunghai University political science professor Shen Yu-chung (沈有忠) said.
Yen is to face off against former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator Lin Ching-yi (林靜儀) in the battle to succeed former Taiwan Statebuilding Party legislator Chen Po-wei