Opposition Coalition Talks for Taiwan Presidential Election Break Down
Taiwan’s three main opposition presidential hopefuls had a last-minute meeting to discuss a coalition ticket before a Friday candidate registration deadline. But the talk ended without any consensus.
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00:00 Taiwan's three main opposition candidates have just left the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Taipei
00:06 after being unable to come to a decision on forming a joint opposition coalition ticket
00:13 for the presidential elections in January.
00:16 Now there's less than 24 hours left until the registration deadline and the KMT's candidate
00:24 Hou Youyi met with the Taiwan People's Party or TPP candidate Ke Wen-je as well as the
00:31 independent candidate Terry Boer and the former president Main Zhou of the KMT and the KMT
00:38 chair Eric Chu were also there.
00:41 And the five of them had an over an hour long discussion and with less than 24 hours to
00:47 go it looks like the chance for them to form a coalition trying to unseat the ruling Democratic
00:54 Progressive Party is looking less and less likely.
00:58 Devin Tai and Sally Jensen in Taipei for Taiwan Plus.
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