By Chris Wang / Staff reporter
New Taipei Mayor Eric Chu (朱立倫) “does not look like he is ready and willing” to run for re-election, former premier Yu Shyi-kun, the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) candidate in the New Taipei City mayoral election, said yesterday on the sidelines of the DPP’s weekly Central Standing Committee meeting.
“Judging from what I’ve seen and heard on the campaign trail, I would say that the chances of Chu declaring a re-election bid are getting slimmer and slimmer,” Yu said.
The Chinese-language China Times reported on Tuesday that Chu is to announce by the end of this month that he would not seek re-election, but would focus instead on the 2016 presidential race.
Chu, 52, along with Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) and Vice President Wu Den-yih (吳敦義), are among reported Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential hopefuls.
Chu on Tuesday said that he was focusing on municipal affairs.