On Monday, the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) vice presidential candidate, former representative to the US Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴), attended the televised debate with her Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) counterparts, Broadcasting Corp of China chairman Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康) and Legislator Cynthia Wu (吳欣盈) respectively.
Hsiao enumerated several reforms implemented by the government and vowed to keep the progress going.
Hsiao began with the government’s economic accomplishments, saying that by distributing stimulus vouchers during the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing the budget for public infrastructure by 30 percent and enabling Taiwan to surpass South Korea in its GDP per capita, the DPP has proven itself more capable of fulfilling people’s needs than the previous KMT administration.