Chung Chia-pin: student leader to DPP leader - TW

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By Chang Yun-ping
STAFF REPORTER
Saturday, May 15, 2004,Page 3

With the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) mired in indecision as to whether to transfer power within the party to a new generation, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) recently brought fresh blood into one of its top positions by inviting Chung Chia-pin (???), a member of the student democratic movement in the 1980s, to take over as the party's spokesperson and deputy secretary-general.

The process through which Chung was appointed took less than 24 hours, as President Chen Shui-bian (???) last Monday instructed Chang Chun-hsiung (???), the DPP's secretary-general, to ask Chung if he was interested in taking up the jobs. The next day, Chung announced that he would take the posts.

"I was actually very surprised when President Chen asked me to take this offer. It happened only one day before Tuesday's Central Executive Committee. The president thought that if I accepted his offer, he could announce his decision the next day," Chung said last week in an interview with the Taipei Times.

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