Wonderful! Taiwan media revealed that Keelung Mayor Xie Guoliang held a municipal meeting after praying, and the DPP city council party group bitterly criticized "no separation of church and state"! Strange things happen every year, and there are especially many political circles in Taiwan. Recently, the Keelung City Council held a meeting, and the mayor of the Kuomintang, Xie Guoliang, and the Democratic Progressive Party caucus began a fierce confrontation. After Keelung Mayor Tse Kwok-leung entered the parliament, DPP Keelung City Councillor Zhang Zhihao proposed that the speaker "say goodbye" after the formal meeting. Zhang Zhihao sarcastically said that the weekly municipal meeting in Keelung City actually prayed first and then held a meeting, and the reason why he put forward the request of "worship" first was to criticize Xie Guoliang's "separation of church and state."
Zhang Zhihao believes that it is impossible for every bureau chief in Keelung City to be a religious trust with Xie Guoliang, and different religious beliefs should be understood or respected. Xie Guoliang can come out for a meeting after praying in the mayor's office, rather than performing a religious ceremony at the city meeting. I have to say that there are too many anecdotes in Taiwan's political arena. When Xie Guoliang ran for mayor of Keelung, he criticized his opponent Democratic Progressive Party candidate Cai Yi for having an affair with the underworld. As a result, when he became mayor of Keelung, Xie Guoliang began to bring religion into the city council. In this way, Xie Guoliang did show his religious piety, but was it a kind of respect for the bureau chief who believed in other religions? Or, does Xie Guoliang want to use religious trust to screen the bureau chiefs below?
Before Xie Guoliang became mayor, Keelung City had been dominated by the DPP for 8 years, and the blue-green voter structure had undergone great changes. Xie Guoliang was elected mayor of Keelung largely because he hated the atmosphere of Chen Shizhong. Geographically and economically, Keelung City and Taipei City belong to the same metropolitan area. But Tse also faces challenges, as the chairman of the Keelung City Council is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. In this context, Xie Guoliang should be more cautious and have no capital to act arbitrarily. Even the director of the bureau, who believes in the same religion as Xie Guoliang, may not accept the process of praying first and then meeting in his heart.
