With less than a week before polling, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) heavyweights were busy yesterday criss-crossing the nation to drum up support for their candidates.

Campaigning yesterday, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who also serves as KMT chairman, said he would see to it that electrification of the Hualien-Taitung railway line is completed within five years.