Taipei, Sept. 28 (CNA) Taiwan People's Party (TPP) presidential nominee Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) on Wednesday dismissed the idea of unconditionally accepting the junior role in a prospective joint ticket with Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜). Responding to comments from KMT party grandee Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康) on Wednesday that it would be "impossible" for Hou to not top the ticket, Ko described the KMT's rumored preconditions as a "peculiar" approach to negotiating an electoral pact. While accepting that a consensus must be reached, Ko questioned how the KMT could frame demands that he give up his own presidential ambitions unconditionally without regard for polling as "cooperation.

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