By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterTaipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) has irked politicians who favor Taiwanese independence with remarks this week. Tsai Hsin-yueh (蔡心岳), son of late Taiwanese-independence advocate Tsai You-chuan (蔡有全), wrote on Facebook that his father rejected political asylum and was imprisoned under the authoritarian regime. Fan said that she cannot be bought. She was approached by a go-between from Ko’s campaign team before the mayoral elections in 2014 and last year who asked if she wanted to run as a deputy mayor of Taipei for Ko, but she refused on the grounds that the SDP’s core beliefs about national sovereignty and gender equality differ from Ko’s, Fan said. Ko on Thursday said that “being bought means being bought, what is there to discuss?”“You [Fan] cannot even remain in your party,” he said.

Source: Taipei Times November 23, 2019 15:56 UTC