TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Former Kuomintang (KMT) Legislator Pan Wei-kang (潘維剛) announced her bid to run for party chairperson on Friday, bringing the current number of candidates to six. In an earlier radio interview, she said that ex-President Ma Ying-jeou supported her ideology, though he politely refused to sign her petition. Party rules state that all contenders must collect signatures from 3 percent of party members in order to become eligible. Pan said that Ma told her he supported each candidate, therefore it was unsuitable for him to sign Pan's. Pan said she told Hung that everyone hoped the KMT would become better and that there will be no conflicts.

Source: The China Post February 24, 2017 03:41 UTC